Between Povarskaya Street and Novy Arbat, near the former Dog Park, stands a two-story mansion that was the last happy home of the poet Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva in Moscow.

The property, which had long been without a stone house, passed to the wife of retired lieutenant colonel A.D. Sabko in the mid-19th century. She built the current house in 1861-1862: two stories, but with an attic and a basement, effectively making it four stories. The entrance to the courtyard was adorned with twisted wrought-iron gates with a wicket. Later, the house was acquired by collegiate assessor A.A. Tsvetaev, who was not a relative of the poetess, but simply a namesake. The Tsvetaev family owned the house until the end of the century, after which it was taken over by the Wilsons, Rodionovs, Balashovs, and Dmitrievs. In 1914, young Marina Tsvetaeva, along with her husband S.Y. Efron and daughter Ariadna, rented one of the four apartments here (No. 3 on the second two-tier floor).

Marina lived in this house for eight and a half years, and it was here that the first happy years of her marriage took place. She referred to the house as "a well of comfort and magic" and "a magical house." Here, she experienced two revolutions, war, terrible poverty, hunger, the birth and death of her second daughter Irina, as well as the false news of her husband's demise. During those times, the house became for her "strange and even frightening." It was here that she established herself as a poet and prose writer, writing 11 books and numerous poems. In 1922, Tsvetaeva left the house with her daughter, heading into exile.

Marina's apartment began with a room with a fireplace and a ceiling window, followed by a "dark living room," the poet's study, a children's room with three windows, and on the second tier were the kitchen and her husband's room, the "attic palace," which Marina especially loved. By 1922, the cozy apartments had turned into numerous communal apartments, and the Tsvetaev family was left with only three rooms.

The communal apartments in the crumbling house persisted throughout the Soviet years. In the 1930s, there were attempts to demolish it, but the war intervened. In 1979, the house was once again under threat. Thanks to the efforts of the last resident and the first scientific supervisor of the museum, N.I. Kataeva-Lytkina, the house was not only saved from destruction but also restored to its architectural and memorial significance. In 1992, the Cultural Center "Marina Tsvetaeva House Museum" opened, marking the poet's centenary.

Today, the museum includes seven memorial rooms, a scientific library, a concert hall, and an archive of the Russian diaspora.