At the beginning of the 18th century, the estate, built on the territory of the modern main post office, belonged to Prince Alexander Menshikov, and later passed into the possession of Prince Alexander Kurakin. Later, this house was purchased by the postal department and housed**Moscow Post Office**. Since the founding of the post office in Moscow in 1725, representatives of the Pestel family have become post directors for almost a hundred years, and Ivan Pestel, who held this position, was the father of Decembrist Pavel Pestel.

Postal carriages and stagecoaches carrying passengers were located in the courtyard of the post office. In the mid-1860s, the building was rebuilt under the direction of architect Albert Kavos, and later several wings were added to it. One of them organized [art exhibitions] (http://kudago.com/msk/exhibitions/), regular literary evenings were held, frequent guests of which were Afanasy Fet, Alexander Ostrovsky, Alexey Pisemsky and other famous writers and poets. The end of the 19th century was marked by the advent of telephone communication, and in 1898, newspaper correspondence was received here for the first time by telephone. Soon, a telegraph was opened in the same building.

The building of the main post office, which has remained almost unchanged, was built in the early 1910s by architect Oscar Munts with the participation of famous architects of the Vesnin brothers. In 2018, the architectural ensemble became a monument of regional importance.