The estate was built in 1814 in honor of the victory in the Patriotic War of 1812. The main building of the urban estate featured a four-column portico. Previously, there were a garden, park, ravine, and stream on the site.

There is a legend linking the house to the works of the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. The townspeople referred to the estate as "the house of the mistress of Mumu."

The Tolmachev estate was founded on the outskirts of Kaluga in 1814 by the Old Believer merchant Khvostov. In 1881, it passed into the possession of the noble Tolmachev family, and in 1919 it was municipalized.

The central place in the estate is occupied by the columned house, while the wings located on the sides have not survived. The complex also included outbuildings, a greenhouse, and a park.

The estate was built by an unknown architect in the style of Catherine's classicism, where wooden structures incorporated elements characteristic of stone buildings.

The well-known local historian S. Bessonov noted in his book "Kaluga Wooden Empire" (1928) that the Tolmachev house was one of the most beautiful examples of wooden architecture in Kaluga and was already in need of repairs at that time.

Today, this monument of wooden empire is under the care of the Russian Real Estate Corporation, which is engaged in its restoration and reconstruction after a fire that occurred in the summer of 2011.