On April 19, 1946, at a meeting of the executive committee of the Sochi City Council of Workers' Deputies, it was decided to allocate a land plot of 2000 sq. m to the People's Artist of the USSR V.V. Barsova on the Old-Sukhumi Highway for the construction of a villa.

The design of the villa was chosen by Barsova after an unofficial competition among architects in Sochi. The author of the project was Igor Alexandrovich Lyublinsky. Technical supervision and negotiations for the construction were conducted by architect Nikolai Sergeevich Trishkin, who also developed the engineering and structural part of the project. The first structure built on the site was a guardhouse with a garage.

The property belonged to Barsova until 1955. That year, the garage was sold and converted by the new owner, T.A. Komisarova (Malinovskaya), into a villa. In 1958, Barsova sold the second floor, which was purchased in 1966 by the family of poetess V.G. Saakova, who still resides there today.

After Barsova's death, according to her will, 3/6 of the villa was transferred to the executive committee of the city council. These parts, comprising the first floor, except for a room of 8.3 sq. m, were transferred to the Department of Culture for the placement of a children's art school, which occupied this space from 1968 to 1985.

In June 1972, in honor of the 80th anniversary of Barsova's birth, a memorial plaque was installed on the facade of the house on Chornomorskaya Street. In 1974, the villa was placed under state protection as a monument of history and culture of local significance.

On January 9, 1988, a department of the history, culture, and public life of Sochi opened in 3/6 of the property bequeathed by Barsova at the Museum of the History of the Resort City of Sochi. Over the years of operation after Barsova's death, changes were made to the interior and exterior of the territory. It is unknown who and when the second floor was sold to, as the Saakova family did not purchase it from Barsova. The layout and interior of the second floor require study, as it is the property of the Saakova family, and the existing documentation in the museum does not contain the necessary information.

The current area of the plot is 0.18 ha. The boundaries of the plot are: to the north, the sleeping building of the Svetlana boarding house; to the south and west, Chornomorskaya Street; to the east, the cinema concert hall of the Svetlana boarding house.

In Barsova's will dated February 13, 1967, it is stated that it is desirable to use the property for organizing a music school for gifted children or another cultural institution.