Across the intersection of Pogodinskaya Street and Maloye Savvinskoye Lane was the country estate of the Yushkov family. This wealthy family owned a large palace on Myasnitskaya, an extensive estate in Kitai-Gorod on Nikolskaya Lane, and a country estate in Devichye Pole.

Contemporaries recalled that the Yushkovs had 200 servants, about 50 horses in the stables, and heavy chests filled with precious fabrics and 40 poods of silverware stored in the cellars, which were displayed at dinners for 150 guests. In 1811, their estate in Devichye Pole hosted a three-day celebration with eighteen balls, fireworks, and music in a vast garden. All nearby factories stopped, workers crowded around the house, and the abbess of the Novodevichy Monastery could not manage the nuns who, instead of attending services, stood on the monastery walls listening to the music and watching the spectacle.

Ultimately, the Yushkovs went bankrupt and sold the estate to merchant Semyon Afanasyevich Milyukov. The founder of the Milyukov family is considered to be Semyon Melik, who, according to various sources, hailed from Germany, Lithuania, or Veliky Novgorod.

Milyukov organized a calico printing factory at the estate on Pogodinskaya Street, 18-22. According to a relative of the factory owner, from early morning there was a clatter, as if hundreds of cooks were banging knives; it was the workers applying patterns to the calico. Behind stood wooden drying houses where the dyed calicos were dried, and further on were dye houses and other buildings. Adjacent to the main building was a stone residential wing, where the office was located downstairs, and Semyon Afanasyevich lived upstairs. From the upper floor, decorated with tasteless luxury, a wide staircase led to a garden with alleys and ponds that descended to the Moskva River.

In 1812, Marshal Louis Nicolas Davout, wounded at the Battle of Borodino, did not stay at the house of Shcherbatov, as Leo Tolstoy wrote, but at the estate of S.A. Milyukov. It was here that the future statesman V.A. Perovsky was brought, whose memoirs Tolstoy used to describe the misadventures of Pierre Bezukhov. Historian E. Tarle noted that Davout was the only one of Napoleon's marshals who did not lose a single battle before the Russian campaign and was able to act independently. After recovering, Davout moved to Chudov Monastery.

Next to the southeast side of the Novodevichy Monastery stood the Church of St. John the Baptist, built in 1525. During the French occupation of Moscow, the church was destroyed, as Napoleon ordered the monastery to be surrounded by an earthen embankment, hindering construction. After the French left, S.A. Milyukov, being the church elder, donated 163,000 rubles for the restoration of the church, which was consecrated in memory of the holy fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council.

Since 1947, the complex of estate buildings on Pogodinskaya Street has housed the publishing house of the Moscow Patriarchate. It also hosts the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Church of St. Joseph of Volokolamsk.