The house of Iraida Ivanovna Mindovskaya is one of the last projects by architect Shekhtel, completed before the revolution. This relatively small building, partially one-story and partially two-story, with a semi-basement utility floor, is located deep within a small plot. The mansion is designed in the neoclassical style with elements of Empire. The most expressive facade, facing the alley, consists of three parts that gradually rise from left to right. The one-story sections of the building are surrounded by a flat-roof balcony railing, decorated with balusters on the left side.

Above the risalit rises a tower-like volume of the second floor with three semi-circular windows, which are lower and narrower than the windows of the first floor. The right part of the facade ends with a volume featuring a gable roof, distinct from the other parts. Here is a large semi-circular window framed by bas-reliefs, along with three narrow windows forming a cohesive whole. The windows of the winter garden are surrounded by narrow pilasters, separated by half-columns without bases and capitals.

In the courtyard, to the left of the mansion, there is a one-story wing forming an inverted letter G and adjoining the left facade of the mansion. It continues with two wide openings of the former garage. The site’s fence is a solid wall with semi-circular niches.

The history of ownership begins in the late 1860s when it belonged to the noble Kobylynsky family. In 1904, it was acquired by Iraida Ivanovna Mindovskaya, the daughter of merchant Ivan Alexandrovich Mindovsky. In 1877, she married her cousin Pyotr Galaktionovich Mindovsky. Iraida was a co-owner of textile factories and bought this house due to its proximity to her sister Olga Ivanovna's mansion. Initially, she lived in the old Kobylynsky house, and in 1914, after receiving an inheritance, she commissioned Shekhtel to build a new mansion.

In 1919, the Supreme Revolutionary Tribunal was located here, and from 1920 to 1938, the mansion was home to Nikolai Krylenko, a Soviet figure who held various high positions and was repressed.

Currently, the mansion belongs to the Embassy of India.