At the corner of Mokhovaya Street and Znamenka Street, there once stood a block of two- and three-story houses. In the early 18th century, this area was owned by the famous Prince Nikita Zotov, which later passed to his grandson Nikita Vasilyevich. In the 1740s, the estate belonged to Prince Fyodor Ivanovich Golitsyn, who sold it in 1757 for 1800 rubles to Anna Eichler, the wife of State Councilor Ivan Khristianovich Eichler. Ivan was a friend of Artemy Volynsky, who was accused of attempting a coup and was exiled to Siberia. At the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century, the house belonged to Prince Pavel Petrovich Shakhovsky, who lived on Prechistenka and was married to Agafoklea Alexeyevna Bakhmetyeva. They had ten children.

In 1867, the estate was divided into three parts: at the corner of Mokhovaya and Znamenka (house 2), on Znamenka (house 4), and on Mokhovaya (house 6). Now only house 6 remains; the others were demolished in 1972 for the visit of U.S. President R. Nixon, and the lawn was named "Nixon's Lawn."

House 6 on Mokhovaya belonged to the daughters of Prince Shakhovsky, Irina and Sofia. In 1867, it was purchased by Ivan Kuzmich Baklanov, the director of the Kupavinskaya wool factory, who reconstructed the old house. In 1868, architect Kaminsky combined the house and wings, creating a classical facade with a portico and columns of the Ionic order.

In 1892, the house was acquired by Yulia Bazanova, a wealthy merchant from Irkutsk. She became the sole heiress of a gold mining business and moved to Moscow, engaging in charity work. With her funds, a clinic for ear and throat diseases was built at Moscow University. The Moscow Duma named the clinic after Bazanova. She continued to invest in charitable institutions.

By 1906, Bazanova's financial situation worsened, and she sold the house to Nikolai Mikhailovich Krasilyshchikov, the director of a factory in Kostroma province. Krasilyshchikov was married to Elizaveta Alexeyevna Druzhnikova, whose portrait by V. Serov adorned the vestibule of the house. Nikolai Mikhailovich had a beautiful tenor voice and studied singing in Italy. He gave singing lessons to many famous singers. His house often hosted well-known musicians and artists.

In 1920, the Krasilyshchikov family emigrated to France, where Nikolai Mikhailovich died. Elizaveta Alexeyevna later married Count Sergey Sheremetev. After the revolution, the mansion was turned into a dormitory, then it was transferred to the Lenin State Library, where a library science institute was established, and later the Kalinin Museum. Today, it houses the Center for Eastern Literature of the RSL.