Its history begins in 1933, when the People’s Commissariat of Forests instructs the architect Andrey Burov to build a residential building for engineering and technical employees of the department in the very center of Moscow on the street. Gorky (today Tverskaya St.). Burov creates a building project (drawings of the facades are now kept in the Museum of Architecture in Moscow) and then supervises the construction of the house in 1933-1936.

Burov is invited to cooperate with the famous artist Vladimir Favorsky, who decorates the facade of the building with sgraffito paintings and sculptural reliefs, referring to the Italian Renaissance, but on topics related to forestry.

Even during the construction of the building, its left end was left deaf, assuming completion, however, by the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, they only managed to dig a foundation pit, the construction itself was carried out after the war in 1946-1950. This part of the house was built by order of the Bolshoi Theater for artists and theater staff. Burov was also entrusted with the design and supervision of construction, and despite the fact that this part of the building is smaller and decorated differently (with bas-reliefs depicting theatrical masks and backstage), the whole building looks very harmonious due to the fact that the architect retained the three-part horizontal division of the left facade and included elements with cornices in the decorative program.

The layout of apartments in the house for artists of the Bolshoi Theater also differed significantly from the layout in the house of Narkomles, where employees received standard two- and three-room apartments, and more spacious four- and five-room non-standard apartments were designed for artists, where the rest of the rooms are located around the octagonal dining room, as well as a kitchen and a bathroom.

It was this apartment that Maya Plisetskaya and Rodion Shchedrin bought in 1963, and they lived in it until 1991, and later periodically came here, permanently residing in Munich.

Maya Mikhailovna and Rodion Konstantinovich managed to create in this apartment a very concise, but at the same time incredibly warm, cozy and atmospheric interior, decorated with photographs of the owners, carpets by Fernand Léger, portraits of Maya Plisetskaya by famous artists, graphic works by Marc Chagall with touching dedication inscriptions dear Mike.

In the dining room, there are glass cabinets in 4 diagonal sides where you can see sets, figurines dear to the heart, photographs and other iconic gifts that have ever been presented as a gift to the great ballerina.

Her now legendary dresses by Pierre Cardin are exhibited here. She was his muse, he was her favorite designer, who not only created costumes for her ballets (the costume for the Anna Karenina ballet is also on display), but is actually the author of her everyday style.