Almost at the very end of Pyatnitskaya Street stands the impressive building of the Sytin Typography. Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin, one of the most famous pre-revolutionary publishers in Russia, was born in 1851 in the Kostroma province. At the age of 15, he came to Moscow and began working in a bookstore. After ten years, having saved enough money, he bought his first lithographic machine and opened a small lithography on Vargunikhina Hill, where he initially printed popular folk lubok pictures. During the Russo-Turkish War, he switched to producing maps of military actions. Gradually, Sytin expanded his range, mainly through inexpensive popular books. At the All-Russian Industrial Exhibition in 1882, he was awarded a bronze medal for his products. In 1887, Ivan Dmitrievich acquired a large property on Pyatnitskaya Street, where in 1903 architect A. E. Erikhson and engineer V. G. Shukhov built him a typography building.

Part of the typography building is located on a site that until 1834 belonged to titular counselor Nikolai Fyodorovich Ostrovsky. Here, the famous playwright Alexander Ostrovsky lived for 14 years.

The main facade of the building, with its Gothic entrance and intricate figurative attics with semicircular windows, is simple yet impressive. Many window frames have been preserved since the early 20th century. However, the overall appearance of the building was spoiled due to the addition of an extra floor.

In 1905, the typography was burned down. The leaders of the strike arrested the entire administration, and under the threat of armed force, the first issue of 'Izvestia of the Councils of Workers' Deputies' was printed, reporting on the general political strike in Moscow organized by the Moscow Council of Workers' Deputies in conjunction with the Social Democratic Party and Socialist Revolutionaries. As a result of the fire, all equipment, paper supplies were destroyed, and some ceilings partially collapsed.

However, a year later, Sytin restored production. This historic building has hosted L.N. Tolstoy, A.M. Gorky, V.V. Mayakovsky, and S.A. Yesenin, who worked for Sytin as a proofreader for some time. After the revolution, the typography was nationalized and became known as the First Exemplary Typography. Interestingly, immediately after the October Revolution, at a general meeting of workers, several thousand votes condemned the violent seizure of power by the Bolsheviks. A Communist cell in the typography was only established in the early 1920s.