From 1800 to the 1830s the mansion belonged to Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhovo-Kobylin, the hero of the Patriotic War of 1812. His children grew up in the mansion: the playwright Alexander Vasilyevich Sukhovo-Kobylin, the artist Sofya Vasilyevna Sukhovo-Kobylina and the writer Elizaveta Vasilyevna Sukhovo-Kobylina (Evgeniya Tur). There lived a teacher of Sukhovo-Kobylin's children, a professor at Moscow University Fedor Moroshkin. With another teacher, Professor Nikolai Nadezhdin, Elizabeth Sukhovo-Kobylina developed romantic relationships, but her parents prevented the wedding.