The mansion on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street, known to Muscovites as the House of Writers, was built in 1889 by order of Prince B. IN. Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky. The author of the project was the famous Moscow eclectic architect Pyotr Samoilovich Boytsov, who built more than forty buildings in Moscow and Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Kursk, Ryazan provinces. For example, it was authored by the estate of N. A. Kazakova Podushkino, now known as the residence of the President of the Russian Federation in Barvikha.

The mansion, built in the romantic Art Nouveau style, is covered with legends, due to the fact that it was here that the headquarters of the most influential Masonic Lodge in Russia was located, which is why this building has the status of a cultural heritage site of regional importance.

The opening of the Central House of Writers on Povarskaya was timed to coincide with the First Congress of Soviet Writers and the formation of the Writers' Union of the USSR, which took place in 1934 in Moscow. Vladimir Mayakovsky reacted to this event as follows: “I don't know if to sing or dance, a smile does not leave my lips.

Writers will finally have their own club.”

For writers and poets of a huge country, it was a really valuable gift. The CDL immediately became the center where the creative life of talented people was in full swing, meetings, premiere readings of literary works were held, which were destined to capture the hearts and minds of millions of people . It is not surprising that many writers who live in Moscow or have been here at least passing through visited their famous home. Tvardovsky, Simonov, Sholokhov, Fadeev, Zoshchenko, Okudzhava shared their creative plans with colleagues here over a cup of coffee.

At one time, the House of Writers was visited by Yuri Gagarin, physicist Niels Bohr, artist and progressive public figure of the United States Rockwell Kent, Gerard Philippe, Marlene Dietrich, Indira Gandhi, Gina Lollobrigida. And the list goes on.

The CDL is famous for its concert halls (small — 120, large — 440 seats), where, in addition to events held directly by writers, film screenings of various formats, pop and symphonic concerts, performances by leading Russian theaters. Its premises are rented for filming by television and filmmakers, as well as for celebrations, scientific and cultural forums, press conferences.

The Central House of Writers is also famous for its restaurant, which has several themed rooms, where visitors are offered exquisite dishes of author's cuisine, as well as elite wines and others premium drinks.