The idea to build an elite house for the highest military leaders of the country belongs to Stalin. According to some sources, the project was created back in 1939, according to others, in 1944. It was developed by an architectural bureau led by Ivan Zholtovsky, the authors of the project were Mikhail Dzisko and Nikolai Gaigarov. According to some assumptions, the project was based on the construction of a pre-revolutionary mansion, which was located nearby, but the “general” house had a more magnificent decor.

The House with Lions was built in the traditions of Stalin's Empire style with elements of neoclassicism. Its main decoration is massive Corinthian columns with a height of three floors and pylons on both sides of the entrance, on which sculptural images of lying lions are placed. Due to these features, the mansion was called the “House with Lions”, or “General's House”. Its construction was completed in 1945, but some improvements were made until 1947.

The interior layout of the house is also noteworthy. The ceiling height in the rooms is 3.8 meters. The three-story building originally housed only six apartments, each of which had 12 rooms. In addition to the entrance hall, hall, living room, bedroom, children's room and study, guest bedrooms and a housekeeper's room were provided here. The storage room, restroom, dressing room, kitchen, dining room were also separate rooms. When the struggle against “architectural excesses” began during the time of Nikita Khrushchev, this particular house was cited as an example of “petty bourgeois” and “a manifestation of false monumentality.”

General Mikhail Malinin, Air Force Commander-in-Chief Konstantin Vershinin, USSR Defense Minister Andrei Grechko, as well as the famous opera singer Elena Obraztsova and her husband, conductor Algis, lived in this house at different times Juraitis. Currently, the mansion is recognized as an object of cultural heritage of regional importance. Interestingly, despite the large number of famous personalities who lived in this house, there is not a single memorial plaque on the building.

Today, the house is still residential, but according to realtors, it has been partially redeveloped and now has eight apartments. The elite mansion has an intercom and a 24-hour security system.