Previously, this site housed the economic yard of the large urban estate of Prince I. A. Gagarin, which burned down in the fire of 1812 and was later divided into eight properties. The estate frequently changed owners and by the end of the 19th century fell into disrepair.

In the summer of 1899, the Moscow Trading and Construction Joint Stock Company of Y. A. Rekka acquired the estate for development and divided it into three plots, where houses No. 6, 8, and 10 on Prechistenka Lane now stand. In the same year, architect William Walcot developed a project for two mansions (No. 10 and No. 8) for the Company. Construction of the building known as the mansion of M. F. Yakunchikova began in 1899. The completion of the second mansion on plot No. 8 was delayed until 1903. Soon after its completion, the house was sold to K. A. Guthail.

Karl Alexandrovich, who headed the music publishing firm "A. Guthail" founded by his father in 1882, made it one of the largest sheet music publishers in the Russian Empire. The firm had stores in the building of the bank and trading house "I. V. Yunker and Co" in Moscow, as well as on Nevsky Prospect in St. Petersburg. The publishing house published works by S. V. Rachmaninoff, compositions by M. A. Balakirev, A. S. Arensky, A. T. Grechaninov, and other composers. In 1885, Guthail obtained the rights to publish many works by M. I. Glinka, A. S. Dargomyzhsky, A. N. Serov, and A. N. Verstovsky.

By 1913, the mansion was acquired by Dionysius Sergeevich Karzinkin, a representative of a well-known Moscow merchant family and a candidate-director of the Yaroslavl Great Manufactory.

After the October Revolution, the mansion was nationalized. The building initially housed a preschool children's home, then the Central House of the Children's Communist Movement and the Central House of Leaders of the Central Committee of the Komsomol. Since 1958, the mansion has housed the Embassy of Morocco in Russia. In 1960, the courtyard part of the building was raised with a second floor, and the open terrace on the eastern facade was converted into a residential space.