In the depths of the courtyard on Bolshoy Strochenovsky Lane, a two-story wooden house is hidden. At the end of the 19th century, there were four houses under one address, owned by a former peasant and later Moscow merchant Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylov. The only surviving house was built in 1891 by architect M.V. Medvedev. It contained four apartments: two on the first floor (No. 5 and 6) and two on the second (No. 7 and 8). Apartments with other numbers were located in neighboring, now lost houses.

There was also a wooden two-story house on the lane, which housed Krylov's meat and vegetable shops. Workers lived in apartments that served as a kind of dormitory for the shop employees.

Since the late 1880s, the senior clerk of merchant Krylov, Alexander Nikitich Yesenin, lived in apartment No. 6. He was born in Ryazan province but was sent to learn from a merchant in his childhood, eventually becoming a clerk. He rarely visited his homeland, but at eighteen, he married a fellow villager. In 1895, his eldest son, poet Sergey Yesenin, was born.

Initially, father and son only saw each other in the village during Alexander Nikitich's rare visits, but in June 1911, Sergey came to Moscow for the first time and spent a week with his father. The following year, after finishing church-teacher school, Sergey returned to Moscow, moved in with his father, and even got a job in Krylov's meat shop office. This address on Bolshoy Strochenovsky Lane became the only officially registered residence of Sergey Yesenin in Moscow. He was registered here until 1918, although he actually moved out from his father's place and left the shop in the summer of 1912, settling in a neighboring house, also owned by Krylov, but becoming independent. He lived here for a short time but always visited his father.

During his stay at this address, Yesenin changed several jobs, including working at the printing house of the I.D. Sytyn partnership, married twice, served in the army, attended a course at the A.L. Shanyavsky People's University, and became a poet. In 1914, his poems were published for the first time, and he brought the fee to his father.

Alexander Nikitich Yesenin left Moscow in 1918 and outlived his son by seven years. The house on Bolshoy Strochenovsky Lane became a memorial. In 1992, it suffered a fire, and the building was so damaged that it was decided to demolish the remaining structures. In 1994, a brick house was built in its place, clad in darkened boards, closely resembling the original appearance. In 1995, a museum opened there to commemorate the centenary of Sergey Yesenin's birth. Its establishment was taken on by the poet's niece S.P. Yesenina, artist A.A. Tavrizov, and philologist S.N. Shetrakov, who became the museum's director. In 1996, the museum received state status, and the exhibition was located in two rooms on the first floor.