The Penza estate at 14 Moskovskaya Street is first mentioned in documents from 1807 as the property of merchant Ivan Ageev. In 1817, it became the property of merchant Ivan Ivanisov, who passed away in 1836. His brother Mikhail, a self-taught poet, wrote the book "Penza. A Poetic Description of the City in the 60s-70s and Satirical Essays on Merchant Life," published in Kyiv in 1908. Later, the estate was sold to merchant Leonov, then to Samarin, and from 1870 to 1872 it belonged to the famous hero of the Russo-Polish War and the Hungarian Campaign, commander of the militia in the Crimean War, commander of the Life Guards Cuirassier Regiment, Lieutenant General A.N. Arapov. After his death, the estate was acquired by merchant Kablov. Subsequently, it housed the copper-mechanical establishment of Rudolf Poly, from 1882, a linen shop, "Warsaw Fashion Store" of Mrs. Sokolovskaya, a manufacturing shop of Vasiliev, a tobacco shop, the dental office of Perelshtein, "Odessa Bakery," a sausage establishment of Sholtz, and a flower shop. The last owners before the revolution were the Umnov merchants. After 1917, it housed the reading room of the ROSTA Window.