In the depths of a wasteland left after the demolition of houses, next to the Patriarchal pedestrian bridge, there is a two-story brick building painted yellow. It has survived due to its antiquity, as its foundations date back to the 16th century. The name of the builder is unknown, and the building has been remodeled multiple times. Vaulted and box ceilings have been preserved between the basement and the first floor. Recent renovations have led to the loss of the old wooden flooring between the first and second floors. The eastern facade has restored decorative window frames of the ground floor, while the southern facade features simple frames with triangular pediments from the 17th century and baroque, eared frames from the 18th century. These elements can be seen under a plastic canopy in the recess by the building's walls.

Before the revolution, this was the urban estate of the famous vodka distillers, the Smirnov family. Ivan Alekseevich Smirnov acquired the property on Bersenevskaya Embankment in 1863 and five years later bought an additional plot, part of the former Wine-Salt Yard, to build a vodka factory. The location was well-chosen: a picturesque riverbank opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Later, the factory and estate passed to his son Sergey Ivanovich, who founded the trading house 'I. A. Smirnov Sons' in 1874 with a capital of 60,000 rubles.

His cousin Pyotr Arsenyevich is more well-known, having started his career as a clerk for his uncle Ivan Alekseevich and having an office nearby, at the Chugun Bridge.

The last owner of the mansion before the revolution was Sergey Sergeyevich Smirnov. After 1917, the vodka factory was transferred to the Moscow City Council's Economic Administration and continued to operate for some time, but was later closed, and its buildings were demolished during the construction of the House on the Embankment.

The Smirnov family urban estate on Bersenevskaya Embankment is protected by the state as a cultural heritage site of regional significance.