In the second half of the 18th century, this was a vast estate of Count I.I. Vorontsov, stretching from Rozhdestvenka to Petrovka and from Kuznetsky Bridge to the present Sandunovsky Lane. On the 1793 plan, one-story wooden shops and a stone building were depicted at the corner of Kuznetsky Bridge and the passage along the Neglinnaya Canal (now Neglinnaya Street). At the turn of the 18th-19th centuries, a two-story stone building was constructed on the site of the shops, which was later raised to three stories and combined with an existing structure (the modern building No. 10/9 on Neglinnaya Street).

In the 1820s, the house, which by that time belonged to Senate clerk Ludwig Shavan, housed the fashionable Demonsi store. A wide selection of French fabrics made from fine wool, straw hats, colorful ribbons, as well as French wines and snuff tobacco were offered here.

Do you remember V.Ya. Motyl's film "The Star of Captivating Happiness" and the hussar Annenkov played by Igor Kostolevsky? Ivan Annenkov, a real historical figure, lived on Petrovka and met his future wife, the Frenchwoman Polina Gebl, at the Demonsi store, where she worked as a saleswoman.

And who hasn't heard of the legendary restaurant "Yar"?

In 1826, the newspaper "Moscow News" published an announcement about the opening of a "restaurant with a dining and dinner table, all kinds of grape wines and liqueurs, desserts, coffee, and tea at very moderate prices." The owner of this establishment was the Frenchman Tranquil Yard, who opened it at the corner of Kuznetsky Bridge and Neglinnaya in Ludwig Shavan's house. "Moderate prices" were more of a marketing ploy, but the fashionable public quickly fell in love with the restaurant, renaming it "Yar." Let’s recall Pushkin's lines:

"...How long must I in hungry sorrow
Keep this involuntary fast
And remember Yar's truffles
With cold veal at last?..."

The truffles of that very "Yar" were what the poet remembered.

The restaurant remained in the building on Neglinnaya until 1848, after which it moved to the entertainment garden "Hermitage" on Bozhedomka. Three years later, it opened as a country restaurant in Petrovsky Park on the Petersburg highway, where it remained until the revolution.

In the second half of the 19th century, the estate belonged to the famous merchants, the Tretyakov brothers, and later their heirs.

During the Soviet era, communal apartments were located in building No. 10, while the first floor housed the dry cleaner "Snezhnika" and a "Canned Goods" store. The building has been well preserved to this day, although it lost the corner balcony of the upper floor in the 1980s.

It is protected as an object that possesses the characteristics of a cultural heritage site.