In a small wooden house, built after a fire in the 1820s, there once was a famous private "Museum of Personal Taste" in Moscow. Today, it houses the scientific and exhibition department of the State Museum of the History of Russian Literature named after V.I. Dal. The house with a mezzanine on a stone foundation was erected in 1822 for college assessor Elizaveta Sontseva. Throughout its history, the mansion changed many owners, including architect Alexander Martynov and the founder of a charitable institution, Ivan Barykov. By the end of the 19th century, the house belonged to the merchant Botkin family. The museum history of the building began in 1889 when Nadezhda Petrovna Botkina, the daughter of a millionaire tea merchant, married artist Ilya Semyonovich Ostroukhov. As a dowry, she was given the house on Trubnikovsky Lane, which Ostroukhov transformed into a home museum. His collection included works by Levitan, Serov, Vrubel, Repin, Matisse, Degas, Renoir, and Manet, as well as a significant collection of Russian icons. Ostroukhov himself referred to his collection as the "Museum of Personal Taste."

After the revolution in 1918, the museum was nationalized, and Ostroukhov became its lifelong custodian. For 11 years, until Ostroukhov's death, the mansion was called the "Museum of Icon Painting and Painting named after I.S. Ostroukhov" and became part of the State Tretyakov Gallery. However, shortly after his death, the museum was closed, and the collection was distributed among major galleries.

In 1979, a decision was made to transfer the mansion to the State Museum of the History of Russian Literature named after V.I. Dal. Restorers restored the building to its original late 19th-century appearance, preserving the layout and decorative elements. From 1984 to 1992, an exhibition dedicated to the history of domestic literature of the 20th century was held here. In 2014, the museum received a new name, the scientific and exhibition department "I.S. Ostroukhov's House in Trubniki." Major historical and literary exhibitions, creative evenings, musical concerts, children's activities, lectures, discussions, and scientific conferences dedicated to literature are held here. On the first floor of the mansion, there is a bookstore "Ostroukhov," offering a wide selection of humanities literature.