The house for merchant Mikhail Araslanovich Tarasov was built in 1909 by architect Mikhail Geisler from St. Petersburg, who was also a civil engineer and owner of a construction company. Some historians believe that his company acted as a contractor, and the true author of the project was another architect from Petersburg, Karl Greynert. Mikhail Tarasov came from a family of well-known Armenian merchants from Armavir. Their ancestor began trading cotton in 1839, and by the end of the 19th century, the family became a leader in southern Russia in the trade of textiles, cotton, sheepskins, and horses. The three Tarasov brothers arrived in the capital in a third-class carriage but soon became first-guild merchants. They owned the firm "Partnership of the Tarasov Brothers' Manufactory," engaged in wholesale trade and located on Old Square in the building of "Boyarsky Dvor." They also founded the North Caucasian Bank and built the Armavir-Tuapse railway.

Mikhail Tarasov's mansion is designed in the neoclassical style. The facades of the two- and partially three-story brick house with a basement and mezzanines have retained decorative finishes with many stylish details: vases in edicules, garlands reminiscent of the drawings of artist Somov, masks, and stucco friezes in the Empire style under the cornice.

On the walls of the mansion, one can see a rich symbolic world of animals characteristic of Art Nouveau. Here are griffins, symbolizing power over the sky and earth, strength, vigilance, and pride, as well as ram heads, symbols of prosperity, owls, symbolizing mercy, swans, and eagles. The main window of the facade from Bread Lane is adorned with half-figures of bearded men, reminiscent of the paintings of Bilibin or Vasnetsov, whose beards turn into acanthus leaves.

The mansion had two entrances from different facades. From Small Rzhevsky Lane, there was an entrance to an apartment with 12 rooms on the first and basement floors, where Mikhail Tarasov himself lived, a member of the board of the North Caucasian Bank. From Bread Lane, there was an entrance to an apartment on the second floor, rented out. It was rented by hereditary honorary citizen Alexander Vladimirovich Ber, a member of the Moscow Automobile Society and an employee of the Golofteev School of the Society for the Encouragement of Labor.

After the 1917 revolution, the estate housed the "Commissioner for Polish Affairs" as part of the People's Commissariat for Nationalities. Later, it became a children's home and then a Belgian mission. The mansion has now been restored, and the historical layout with enfilades of ceremonial rooms and living areas has been preserved on the first and second floors.