At the end of the 18th century, a vast estate on the slope of the Hostinaya Mountain, where Vоронцово Поле street is now located, belonged to Grigory Potemkin. After his death, it passed to the treasury and was then transferred to Prince A. Bezborodko in exchange for a palace in the German settlement, which he handed over to Paul I. Alexander Andreevich planned to build a manor house with a park here and commissioned the house project to architect J. Quarenghi, and the park project to N. Lvov. The park was laid out, and its remnants have survived to this day, but the palace was never built due to Bezborodko's death. Soon the estate was divided into small plots and sold.

In 1860, on the modern plot No. 6, the Latyshev merchants built a mansion, which in 1896 was acquired by Alexei Petrovich Bakhrushin, a well-known philanthropist and collector. At that time, architect K. Gippius reconstructed the old house at Bakhrushin's request. This mansion housed his extensive collection, which included engravings, miniatures, works of Russian decorative and applied arts, ancient icons, porcelain, faience, and a library with more than 25,000 volumes on the history, archaeology, and ethnography of Russia. The house often hosted famous historians, artists, and writers.

After Alexei Petrovich's death in 1904, his widow sold the mansion to merchant N. Bardygin. In 1911, architect I. T. Baryutin reconstructed the house in the Art Nouveau style. The facade received rich stucco decoration, complemented by ceramic tiles. The left part of the house was topped with a gable roof, while the right had a baroque dome. The attics and fence were adorned with vase-lanterns featuring snakes, which is why the house earned the nickname 'the house of conversing snakes.'

The neighboring plot No. 8 belonged to A. von Vogau, for whom architect S. Voskresensky built a mansion in 1897-1898. The last pre-revolutionary owner was Elza Gugovna Mark. The Vogau-Mark family owned several houses in the area, and the street was even called 'Vogau-Strasse.'

Currently, the combined plot No. 6-8 houses the Embassy of India and the ambassador's residence. In the park, a garden pavilion with a grotto, built probably in 1821, has been preserved. Restoration of the residence building is planned, including the restoration of the facades and roofing. The decorative finish of the early 20th century will be recreated, as well as the metal finishing of the tent and the figured parapet on the facade based on a historical photograph from 1930.