The house on Malaya Palashevsky Lane, mentioned in the guide as "a residential house from the 17th century, significantly remodeled in the 18th century," actually corresponds to this description only partially. These words refer only to the left wall of the building, which was restored in the 1980s. The white wall of the 17th-century chambers is specifically highlighted and left unplastered, unlike the rest of the building.

The building itself was likely constructed in the early 19th century and at some point belonged to the wife of the rotmistr L.I. Melgunova. This two-story structure with a high second floor, built over the chambers, has a mezzanine in the courtyard part. In the second half of the 19th century, it was inhabited by Adelina Sergeevna Yakovleva, who also owned the neighboring property on Tverskaya Street. She lived on Tverskaya and rented out the house in the lane until the October Revolution of 1917.

In the 1880s-90s, poet Alexei Ermilovich Razorenov, known for his romance "Do not scold me, dear...", rented house No. 7. Razorenov, a self-taught poet, came to Moscow from Kolomensky District in the mid-19th century and worked as a clerk. In the 1860s, he opened a small vegetable shop in Palashevsky Lane, which became a kind of literary club for self-taught poets in Moscow. He could often be seen behind the counter, reciting his poems or monologues from Shakespeare's tragedies.

After his death in 1891, the literary tradition in house No. 7 was continued by Lithuanian proletarian writers. In the 1920s, their Union named after Y. Janonis was located here.