Next to the "Central" hotel on Gymnaziyskaya Street stands another architectural treasure of Yekaterinodar. This luxurious two-story mansion made of red brick is now the historical and archaeological museum-reserve named after E.D. Felitsyn. It was built by the Bogarsukov merchants for their family. It is said that the house was erected in response to the opening of a competitor, Polikarp Gubkin, with his "Grand Hotel" opposite the "Central."

According to Kuban local historian Vitaly Bardadym, the mansion is designed in the style of "classical eclecticism," where several architectural directions harmoniously combine without violating proportions and artistic taste. Its bright and original appearance overshadowed not only Gubkin's hotel but also the Bogarsukovs' own hotel. Unfortunately, the name of the architect who created this house has not survived.

The interior decoration of the mansion matched its exterior appearance. The ceilings were adorned with stucco that echoed elements of the facade: flowers, fruits, leaves. Plant motifs were also present in the wrought-iron railings of the white marble staircase leading to the second floor. The corridor floors were laid with Mettlach tiles, produced at the Kharkov factory of Eduard Bergenheim, which was considered the best finishing material in the south of the Russian Empire.

The walls of the rooms were painted in the technique of alfrey painting, which imitates various types of decorative finishes, such as plaster stucco, silk, or valuable wood species. Unlike frescoes, alfrey painting is applied to dry plaster.

The themes of the paintings varied from room to room. In the "Moorish" smoking room, where men gathered to converse over hookahs, scenes of Eastern life were depicted, illustrating the stories of the family head Nikita Pavlovich about his time in the Ottoman Empire. In other halls, popular ancient themes of the time prevailed.

In the "Miniature Stories" of the Adyghe enlightener Seferbiya Siyukhova, there is a case related to the Bogarsukov mansion. In 1900, the Bogarsukov brothers, merchants from the Cherkessogai, built a large beautiful house on Gymnaziyskaya Street in Yekaterinodar. After the construction was completed, they held a dinner in honor of their housewarming, inviting guests, including Cherkess. The elder brother, Medzhlysh, showed the guests the rich decoration of the house, including parquet floors, paintings, plumbing, and electric lighting. One of the guests, Shumaf Hakuy, joked that the house lacked a lock to stop the angel of death, to which Medzhlysh replied that such an engineer did not yet exist.

In the mansion's grand hall, there was a stage for amateur performances. In the first half of the 19th century, officers of the Kuban Cossack Army participated in such performances in Kuban, but after Yekaterinodar was transformed into a civilian city in the 1860s, representatives of the local intelligentsia began to participate in the development of amateur theater: musicians, teachers, doctors.

Over time, the Bogarsukov house became a cultural center of the Kuban capital. Charitable concerts, Christmas trees, home theater performances, and meetings of the Kuban charitable committee on prisons, directed by Christopher Bogarsukov, were held here.

The Bogarsukov family actively supported national charitable organizations that emerged in the early 20th century. It is known that on January 2, 1914, a charity evening of the Cherkess Society took place in the house, including a performance of living pictures and Cherkess dances.

During World War I, the mansion was sequestrated. From August 1918, it housed the headquarters of the Volunteer Army of General A.I. Denikin, and after the establishment of Soviet power, the sanitary unit of the 9th army. In the 1920s-1930s, it housed the House of Pioneers and the NKVD.

In the following decades, the mansion frequently changed owners until it was transferred in the early 1960s to the Krasnodar State Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve named after E.D. Felitsyn, which still occupies this building today.