In 1900-1901, the Petrovsko-Alexandrovsky boarding house was built at the corner of 1st Tverskoy-Yamskoy Lane and 5th Tverskoy-Yamskaya Street for the nobility of the Moscow province. Here lived children from poor noble families, or so-called 'insufficient nobles.' The initiator of the boarding house's creation was Prince A.V. Meshchersky, who led the Moscow nobility in 1869 and 1875.

The boarding house was relocated to the Tverskoy-Yamskaya sloboda from Tverskaya Street. New buildings were constructed with funds from Count S.V. Orlov-Davydov, based on the designs of architects A.F. Meisner, M.K. Geppener, and military engineer A.A. Semenov.

The complex of the boarding house included the main educational building, a residential building for students with galleries, a staff house, and the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. The church was connected to the Moscow representation of the Valaam Monastery located nearby.

Count Orlov-Davydov, a descendant of the favorites of Catherine II, was a well-known patron who supported the Bronitsy City Men's School and founded the St. Olga Children's Hospital in Moscow. He donated 40,000 rubles for the construction of the residential buildings and the church of the boarding house.

The solemn opening of the boarding house took place on January 20, 1902. The building was made of red brick with plastered inserts and decorated with stucco that has survived to this day.

After the 1917 revolution, the boarding house ceased to exist, and the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was closed in 1918. Part of the church utensils was transferred to the sacristy of the Church of St. George in Gruziny, and the carved oak iconostasis with 18 icons was moved in 1920 to the church in the village of Knyazhovo in the Volokolamsk district.

During the Soviet era, the building of the boarding house housed the Krasnopresnensky District Council, and during the Great Patriotic War, it served as a hospital, later transformed into the N.N. Burdenko Neurosurgery Research Institute.

In 1995, a sisterhood of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was established at the institute, and the church on the territory of the boarding house was restored and assigned to the representation of the Valaam Monastery.

In 2001, the building was renovated and acquired a modern appearance.