Borisoglebsky Lane, formerly known as Pisemsky Street, is located in the center of Moscow, in the Arbat area, between Novy Arbat and Povarskaya Streets. Here you can find the Marina Tsvetaeva House Museum, as well as the embassies of Mongolia and Lithuania. The name of the lane appeared in the late 18th century and is associated with the Church of Saints Boris and Gleb, which stood on Povarskaya Street until 1936.

House 15, building 3, is a recognized cultural heritage site. This one-story wooden building with a stone basement and mezzanine faces the red line of Borisoglebsky Lane. Built in 1818 as the main house of a small urban estate, it was expanded in 1835 with additions made of stone and wood. The building stands on the site of a house destroyed by the fire of 1812.

The site is linked to the name of writer and translator Mikhail Vasilyevich Danilov, who was invited to Moscow in the 1740s to organize palace fireworks and illuminations. For this work, he received a military rank. Danilov also participated in the creation of the famous unicorns and wrote one of the first books on pyrotechnics in Russia. After retiring in 1759, he settled in Moscow, where his family owned the site for 40 years until 1803.

Another notable owner of the estate was Major General Nikolai Grigorievich Shcherbatov, a participant in the Patriotic War of 1812 and the foreign campaigns of the Russian army. He was the brother of Moscow Governor-General Alexei Shcherbatov and owned the site during the construction of house No. 15.

From 1822 to 1823, the estate was owned by Captain A.P. Dmitrieva, and in 1835, by retired cornet N.A. Vasilchikov, a Decembrist and member of the Southern Society. After the uprising's defeat, he served in the Caucasus, participated in the Persian campaign and the Russo-Turkish campaign, was wounded, and retired. Vasilchikov was under strict surveillance and lived in the Moscow region of Vsekhsvyatskoye, and he was allowed to return to Moscow in 1831.

In 1904, the house was owned by V.S. Selivacheva. Until the early 20th century, it was a residential building, later it housed an educational institution.

The main facade of the house has retained a three-part composition with a central risalit, which originally had a four-column portico of the Ionic order. The exterior appearance of the building was significantly altered in the early 20th century when the central risalit lost its portico and the building received eclectic decor.

In the 1970s, a major renovation was carried out, preserving the overall layout and a small part of the interiors, including two corner stoves in one of the halls. In the 2000s, further restoration work was conducted with partial updates to the structure.