In 1898, a shelter for orphans of merchant origin was added to the old building of the Pokrovskaya Merchant's Almshouse, designed in the neo-Russian style. It is located on the side of Perevedenovsky Lane. According to Moscow historian Sergey Romanyuk, the project was developed by architect V.F. Zhigardlovich.

The choice of location for the new charitable institution was not accidental. At the end of Pokrovskaya Street (now Bakuninskaya), the largest charitable complex in Moscow already existed. The Pokrovskaya Almshouse, founded in 1840, was one of the main charitable establishments in the city. Nearby was the diocesan Vladychno-Pokrovskaya community of mercy sisters at the ancient Church of the Intercession in Rubtsov, which also engaged in educational and charitable activities. The community operated several schools, including a six-grade general education school, a paramedic school, a silk production school, as well as a children's shelter, an outpatient clinic, and a pharmacy.

The history of the community began in 1869 when the abbess of the Serpukhov Vladychny Monastery, Mitrophania, in the world Baroness Praskovya Rosen, founded a monastic community of mercy sisters on the outskirts of Moscow. However, the history of this convent was marred by a criminal scandal. Abbess Mitrophania, to raise funds for the community, engaged in fraud, forged promissory notes, and extorted money, for which she was convicted in 1874 and sentenced to exile in the Yenisei province. Ultimately, she ended up in a monastery instead of exile.

Nearby, the Alexander-Mariinsky School was built, where the Moscow Automobile and Road Technical School is now located. Above its entrance, the inscription remains: "Founded on July 30, 1888." The architect of the building was N.N. Vasilyev. The school officially opened in 1888, although the building was completed a year earlier.

In 1898, the complex was supplemented by a shelter for orphans from the merchant class. The shelter was built by the Moscow Merchant Society at its own expense and "established in memory of the sacred coronation" of Nicholas II and Alexandra Fyodorovna. The shelter housed 30 children, and another 10 orphans were supported by a scholarship "in the name of Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna."

On December 3, 1914, during a visit to Moscow, Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna and Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna, after the liturgy at the Assumption Cathedral in the Kremlin, visited the Romanov Hospital at the Pokrovskaya community and the Pokrovskaya Merchant's Almshouse. In the church dedicated to the holy Xenia at the Pokrovskaya Almshouse, students of the Alexander-Mariinsky School and wards of the Merchant Society's shelter performed a prayer for the empress and grand duchesses: "Save, O Lord, Your people..."

The almshouse and shelter were closed in the 1920s. The complex of the almshouse with the church was partially returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1998. The building of the Merchant Society's shelter is a cultural heritage site of regional significance.