This mansion is one of the most known monuments of the Moscow Modern style. The project of a mansion for Stepan Pavlovich Ryabushinsky (1874–1942), the businessman, the banker and the collector, and Anna Aleksandrovna Ryabushinskaya (Pribylova in girlhood) in the hold on Malaya Nikitskaya street acquired in June 13, 1900 (according to the bill of sale) has been approved in August of the same year. Construction started in March 1901 and by August 1902 built structures appeared on the site. The stone, partly two- and partly three-storyed house with the cellar contained the apartment of the house owner A. A. Ryabushinskaya. The basement floor was comprised of seven rooms and two storerooms, the ground floor contained six rooms, the first floor eight rooms, and on the second floor there was a chapel room. The yard along the gable end and left borders of the hold has been limited by a one-two-storeyed structure with a laundry, the yard cleaner's lodge, a stable, a carriage shed, a garage, a cowshed and apartments of servants.
The architecture of the mansion encompasses simplicity of a cubic form, an accurate geometrizm of the planes and clarity of the general composition. The construction principle “from inner to outer”, typical for the architect and worked out in his previous works, has been used in creation of volume of the building. The “all-facadeness” principle is designed for change of dynamics of picture composition and duration of time perception.