Shelaputinsky Lane in Moscow is a unique ancestral home of one of the most famous merchant dynasties of pre-revolutionary Russia, the Morozovs.

The founder of this family, Savva Vasilyev, was a peasant from the village of Zuevo and a former serf of landowner Ryumin. He owned two weaving factories in Zuevo and Nikolsk and moved to Moscow in the 1820s. Here he took the surname Morozov, which, according to family legend, is related to his birth in February during severe frosts. Soon he became a Moscow merchant. In 1826, Savva Vasilyevich purchased a plot in modern Shelaputinsky Lane for 5,000 rubles from the merchant's wife A.G. Savostina. The plot included a two-story stone residential house, a non-residential building, and a garden. By the end of the 1830s, he rebuilt the old house in the style of late classicism. By this time, his property had more than doubled. On the site of the trading baths next to the mansion, he built a factory building. By 1860, his plot expanded to 3,860 square fathoms (over 8,200 sq. m) and included 11 stone and several wooden buildings.

From this ancestral nest in Shelaputinsky Lane, the descendants of Savva Vasilyevich spread throughout Moscow.

Savva Vasilyevich Morozov died in 1862 and was buried at the Rogozhskoye Old Believer Cemetery, as almost all Morozovs were Old Believers. By his will, the estate in Shelaputinsky Lane passed to his granddaughter Ekaterina Abramovna Morozova (in marriage Nyrkova), the daughter of the prematurely deceased Abram (Avramiy) Savich.

Ekaterina Abramovna partially reconstructed the mansion and organized a shelter for the poor. The almshouse accepted Old Believers connected with the Rogozhskaya Old Believer community. There was also an Old Believer house church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul.

After the revolution, the almshouse was closed. In the following years, it housed the Exemplary Insurance Fund named after Schmidt of Gubsozstrah, a workers' club, and VNIIVTogemash.

To this day, part of the interiors from the 19th century has been preserved in the building. In 2013, the restoration of the mansion began, after which it is planned to relocate the State Literary Museum from Petrovka here.