In 1879, a two-story house with a mezzanine, owned by Natalia Pavlovna Panchulidzeva, the wife of Alexei Alexeevich Panchulidzev, brother of the governor of Penza, was sold for the Penza diocesan school. This school was named in 1874, although the first educational institution for orphaned girls of spiritual status in the Penza region was opened back in 1846 at the Penza Trinity Women's Monastery.