The corner house facing Bobrov Lane was originally conceived by the joint-stock company "Fetter and Ginkel" as a rental property. Construction, which began in 1917 under architect V.E. Dubovsky, was prolonged for a long time. Although the construction site did not beautify the lane, it became a strategic point during the capture of the telephone station, where cadets barricaded themselves. Only after the end of the civil war did the house, according to a modified design by A.M. Kalmykov, acquire its current appearance.

During the Soviet era, numerous organizations were located in the large new building, but there were also residential apartments. From 1934 until his death in 1946, the academician of painting and graphic artist Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Lansere, a representative of a famous artistic family, lived here. He was the son of sculptor Yevgeny Alexandrovich Lansere and Yekaterina Nikolaevna, the daughter of architect Nikolai Leontyevich Benois, as well as the brother of painter Zinaida Serebryakova and architect Nikolai Lansere. Having lost his father at an early age, Yevgeny Lansere was raised in the Benois household. He received his artistic education at the drawing school of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts and improved his skills in Paris. He traveled extensively through Italy, France, Germany, Japan, and Turkey. He was an active member of the "World of Art" association and the artistic director of the Imperial Porcelain Factory. Lansere created numerous book illustrations, decorative panels, historical paintings, and theatrical decorations.

Since 1935, while living in this house, Lansere actively worked in the field of monumental art. Although most of his projects were not realized, the panel for Kazansky Station provides insight into his work during this period.

Lansere lived in this house during the most difficult years: the Stalinist repressions and the war. The artist Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Lansere, his grandson, still lives in the house today.

The house is located on a plot that has belonged to Prince M.P. Cherkassky since the early 17th century. Later, it was acquired by the chamberlain Grigory Mikhailovich Petrovo-Solovovo, who joined it to his holdings further down the lane. In 1839, Prince Meshchersky settled here, and from 1844, merchant Fyodor Osipovich Faleev. Twenty years later, the owner became Colonel Lvov. For some reason, the owners did not stay long: merchants Chernyshev, Smirnov, Tikhonov, and from the 1890s, merchant Anfisa Andreyevna Kapyrina, in marriage Knyazeva, who sold the property to "Fetter and Ginkel."