The Empire-style manor house with a six-column Tuscan portico and a mezzanine topped with a belvedere is located deep within the courtyard of a quiet alley. It was built in the 1830s, presumably by the architect A.G. Grigoriev of post-fire Moscow.

This building was not the first on this site. Until the 18th century, there was the Garnet Yard, where gunpowder and ammunition were stored, which gave the alley its name. As a result of a brutal fire, accompanied by numerous casualties, all of this was destroyed. Such a beginning to the history of the place influenced the fate of subsequent buildings.

Under the next owner, A.I. Kikin, there were stone chambers here, which were sold in 1733 to the Orlov brothers, and in 1763 to the office of the Life Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment. By 1800, the buildings had fallen into disrepair and were demolished, and the plot was sold. The new owner, Princess Golitsyna, built a two-story building with a stone first floor in 1804, which burned down in the fire of 1812.

More than 20 years later, the current house was erected for the grandson of the great commander A.V. Suvorov and the nephew of Catherine II's favorite, Platon Zubov, also Platon Nikolaevich Zubov. His daughter Lyubov married the hero of the Patriotic War of 1812, General Ivan Sergeyevich Leontyev, and in the 1850s, the property passed to their heirs.

In 1913, the house was threatened with demolition, as a multi-story apartment building was planned to be built in its place. The roof and floor had already been dismantled, but the onset of World War I thwarted these plans. Ten years later, the mansion was restored, recreating the mezzanine with the belvedere, window surrounds, and terrace railings, and it housed the chamber of measures and weights.

A fence, which is a copy of the railing of the Gagarin house on Novinsky Boulevard, lost in 1941, separates the mansion from the street.

Currently, the public is fighting for the establishment of a museum of A.V. Suvorov in this house.