Next to the Church of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God on Bolshaya Ordynka stands one of the most luxurious estates of Zamoskvorechye, the Kirievsky and Karpov house. This house, adorned with an expressive portico of pilasters, is a true gem of the district.

Originally, the house belonged to the famous Kirievsky family, known since the 17th century. In the late 18th century, Guard Second Lieutenant Vasily Ivanovich Kirievsky purchased a small plot of land on Bolshaya Ordynka, not far from the Iveron Church. In the early 19th century, the Kirievsky family bought the neighboring plot and began construction of the estate house in 1817. Vasily Ivanovich was a close friend of the sentimentalist poet Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky. In 1805, Zhukovsky's niece, Avdotya Yushkova, married Vasily Kirievsky. Vasily Ivanovich was beloved by both his contemporaries and the serfs. His passion for knowledge was widely known: he spoke several languages fluently, engaged in translations, wrote novels, and created a chemical laboratory at his estate. After his death in 1817, his widow continued the construction of the house with their three children. Soon after, Avdotya Petrovna married the nobleman Alexei Andreyevich Yelagin, and the family moved to a mansion near Krasnye Vorota. This house became one of the most popular literary salons in Moscow.

In the 1830s, Kirievsky's son, Ivan Vasilyevich, a well-known literary critic and Slavophile, lived in the family mansion on Bolshaya Ordynka. In 1834, he married and left Moscow for a long time.

The house remained empty until 1875, when Kirievsky's widow sold it to the family of Timofey Savvich Morozov, a patron of the arts from a well-known merchant family. The house was purchased for Morozov's eldest daughter, Anna Timofeyevna, and her husband Gennady Fyodorovich Karpov, a professor at Moscow University. Their home on Bolshaya Ordynka became a meeting place for outstanding figures of art at that time, such as A.P. Chekhov, P.I. Tchaikovsky, I.I. Levitan, and K.S. Stanislavsky. In 1877, the Karpovs installed a new cast-iron fence and made gates to the estate. Over time, the Karpov family became cramped in the house: Anna Timofeyevna gave birth to 15 children. In 1885, under the guidance of architect A.N. Knabe, it was decided to expand the house by adding a new volume to the south side and a wing.