The house at the corner of Vspolny Lane, previously known as Georgievsky, is now more commonly referred to as Lavrenti Beria's house. The People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR and curator of the atomic project indeed lived here with his family from the late 1930s until 1953. It was here that he was arrested on June 26, 1953, then sent to prison and executed on December 23 of the same year in the courtyard of the Moscow Military District headquarters.

The history of ownership of this house began much earlier. Local historical literature mentions that in the mid-18th century, there were vacant lots at the corners of the lane with Malaya Nikitskaya and Spiridonovka, which belonged to no one. After the demolition of the Earth Rampart in the 1810s, the area began to be developed, and in A. Khotyev's mid-19th-century plan, the corner of Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya, Malaya Nikitskaya, and Georgievsky Lane was already built up. In the 1860s and 1870s, the estate belonged to A. D. Zasetsky. His plot was opposite the Church of George at Vspolye, where P. I. Tchaikovsky was married, and on the site of which a Radio Broadcasting and Recording House was built during the Soviet era.

In 1882, the plot passed to Stepan Alexeyevich Tarasov, for whom a house was built in 1884 according to the design of architect V. N. Karneyev. In 1885, Tarasov served as acting mayor but soon fell ill and resigned.

The last owner of the estate before the revolution was engineer Alexander Bakakin, married to Olga Mindovskaya from a well-known factory dynasty. They did not enjoy the mansion for long: Bakakin died in 1913, and his wife in 1914.

By order of Bakakin, architect Adolf Ernestovich Erikhson reconstructed the estate, creating a neoclassical ensemble that included the mansion with a garden and a tenement house with apartments for rent. The tenement house faced the lane.

The layout of the main house of the estate is typical for the early 20th century. A staircase made of solid marble leads to the second floor, adorned with consoles featuring bronze mythological rams that once held candlesticks, which disappeared during the Soviet era. The long ceremonial enfilade was remodeled in the 20th century, creating more compact spaces. Gilded mirrors, ceiling stucco, and antique furniture with bulbous legs and silk upholstery have been preserved.

Currently, the building houses the Embassy of Tunisia.