At the address Kamennaya Sloboda Lane, house 2, there are three buildings facing a small Spasopeskovskaya Square. This square was formed by constructions from the 17th and early 20th centuries and once belonged to the parish of the Church of the Savior on the Sands.

The left building (No. 1), a tenement house of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior, was built in 1911 and was extended in the 1930s-40s. On the right is another house that also belonged to the parish (p. 2), where in the late 19th century the parish school was located on the first floor. The second and third floors were added in 1906 by architect Postnikov. The southern facade of the house retains a decorative brick niche, as well as the railings of the balcony and staircase, and elements of the interiors from 1915.

The central building, also listed as structure 2, is a one-story wooden building from 1837 that belonged to the parish. It is believed that it was from the windows of this house that V. D. Polenov painted the famous "Moscow Courtyard" in 1878. According to another version, Polenov worked on the painting in the Baumgarten house on Durnovsky Lane. However, the artist himself claimed that the basis for the canvas was a sketch made from the windows of a house he accidentally entered. "I was looking for an apartment, saw a note, went in to take a look, and right from the window, this view presented itself to me. I immediately sat down and painted it..." Thus, the central house may be the very house from which the painting was created, or the only one of all the houses in the painting that has survived to this day.

Interestingly, Polenov initially did not consider the painting successful. When sending it to the Traveling Exhibition, he wrote to Ivan Kramskoy that he had no time to create a more significant work. Nevertheless, "Moscow Courtyard" received tremendous success and became one of the symbols of Russian art.

In the late 20th century, the house became a filming location for the movie "Black Rose, Emblem of Sorrow..." (1989) directed by Sergey Solovyov.

Currently, all the buildings belong to the parish of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord on the Sands, and according to press information, there are plans for the construction of a temple complex here.