In the 1890s, the plot belonged to state councilor S.I. Smirnovsky, and in the 1910s it was purchased by Moscow merchant of the second guild Ivan Stepanovich Filippov. Here he opened a colonial goods store and an inn, which operated until 1917.

After the revolution, the house was consolidated and became communal.

Since the early 1930s, the family of variety artist V.N. Yakhontov lived in apartment 35. The talented actor began his career at Meyerhold's theater, and in the late 1920s, together with his wife, director E.E. Popova, he created the genre of "one-man theater" and performed with monologues. His talent as a reciter and actor was recognized by many contemporaries, such as O. Mandelstam, V. Meyerhold, and I. Andronnikov. V. Mayakovsky considered Yakhontov the best performer of his works. In 1937, he received the first prize at the First All-Union Competition of Masters of Artistic Word, and a telegram about the award was sent to this address.

In 1937, O. Mandelstam and his wife briefly stayed here after arriving in Moscow from their exile in Voronezh. E. Popova referred to their visit in her diary as "terribly devastating."

Mandelstam dedicated poems to E. Popova: "With a touch of a crow, doves...", "It is necessary for the heart to beat...", and "To the slopes, Volga, flow, Volga, flow...".

During the Great Patriotic War, V. Yakhontov used the funds from his performances to build a tank at the Kirov plant and named it "Vladimir Mayakovsky".

In May 1945, he, along with Levitan, led the Victory Parade. In July of the same year, Yakhontov took his own life.

Currently, the renovated building houses the office of the company "Country of Children".