In the early 18th century, the area between Kuznetsky Most and Petrovskie Linii, from Rozhdestvenka to Petrovka, belonged to Count I. Vorontsov. In the early 19th century, part of this estate, located between Neglinnaya and Petrovka, was divided into six properties. The plot where Petrovsky Passage later appeared was acquired by merchant Surovtsov, who transferred it to the Moscow civil governor.

On this site, a building was rented out, which housed a bookstore and the "French Library for Reading Reno," as well as Briker's music store. The owners changed until, in the mid-1870s, the plot was purchased by Moscow merchant I. Firsanov. His daughter, Vera Ivanovna Ganetskaya, was a well-known landlady and patron.

In 1900, she decided to build a grand passage on this site. The project was developed by architects S. Kalugin and B. Freidenberg. However, Freidenberg's collaboration with Firsanova's husband, Ganetsky, turned out to be a failure for the architect. After the construction of Sandunov, Freidenberg quarreled with the owner and was forced to leave Moscow. The construction of the Passage became his last work.

The Firsanov Passage was built using new technologies under the guidance of engineer V. Shukhov. His designs created wide glass semi-cylindrical vaults that covered the store galleries.

The Passage opened in February 1906, and 50 well-known trading firms placed their pavilions here. Since 1910, a restaurant and café "Bristol" operated in the basement.

After the revolution, trade in the Passage ceased. The premises were occupied by a permanent industrial exhibition of the VSNH, a cinema "Kino-Petrovka" was opened, and a factory for sewing linen for the Red Army was established. The Passage became known as Petrovsky, and in 1921, its wall was adorned with the relief "Worker" by sculptor M. Manizer.

With the relocation of the VSNH exhibition to Krymsky Val, the first floor was again allocated for trading pavilions. V. Mayakovsky wrote about how workers enthusiastically read announcements about the sale of ready-made blouses.

In the early 1930s, several premises on the second line were occupied by the Dirizhablestroy trust, where Italian designer Umberto Nobile worked.

Auctions were held in the Passage, and the characters of Ilf and Petrov, Bender and Vorobyanyinov, came here for chairs. Some premises were occupied by proletarian clubs.

During the Great Patriotic War, the Passage became a huge communal apartment, where residents of destroyed houses moved in. It was only in the 1960s that the communal apartment was settled, when the building was occupied by Trade School No. 3.

The Passage was reconstructed in the late 1980s and is now once again one of the fashionable and expensive stores in Moscow.