In the 18th century, a large estate belonging to the princes of Gagarin was located near the Arbat Gates of the White City. In the fire of 1812, the estate burned down, but only the wing near Nikitsky Boulevard survived. This wing was restored and became the main house.

In the 1820s-1830s, the house was owned by Anastasia Mikhailovna Shcherbinina, the daughter of Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova, who was a companion of Catherine II and headed the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences for a long time. At a ball hosted by Shcherbinina on February 20, 1831, Pushkin made his first public appearance with his young wife after their wedding. The famous Slavophile A.I. Koshelev wrote to Prince V.F. Odoevsky about meeting Pushkin at this ball and about his wife, who made a great impression on him.

In 1836, the mansion passed to the Golovkin counts. In 1872, the estate was acquired by the Pribylov merchants, known as the "calico kings." Five years later, the house was rebuilt according to the design of architect Alexander Vivien, receiving an elegant facade that has survived to this day, as well as an iron fence along Nikitsky Boulevard. In the early 20th century and until 1917, the estate was owned by merchant Sofia Alexandrovna Makeeva, the heiress of the Pribylovs.

After the revolution, the mansion housed the House of Printing, where poets Yesenin, Mayakovsky, Shershenovich, Mariengof, Bryusov, and Blok performed. On December 30, 1925, Muscovites said goodbye to Yesenin here. In the 1930s, concerts by L. Oborin and D. Oistrakh were held in the building, and the House of Printing Review Theater operated. Since 1938, the mansion has been known as the Journalist's House, or Domzhur.

In 1941, Moscow journalists departed for the front from here.

Today, Domzhur hosts press conferences, international round tables, debates, creative meetings, seminars, and exhibitions daily. Festivals, creative evenings, and concerts are organized here. The building houses a journalism museum and a cinema hall. The interiors from the first half of the 19th century have been preserved: the ballroom, which has become a concert hall, the fireplace room, the Pink and Blue drawing rooms, as well as the grand staircase that Pushkin and Natalia once walked.