Even against the background of many other interesting architectural structures, the house at the intersection of 8th Sovetskaya, Starorusskaya and Novgorodskaya Streets attracts special attention. This is not even a house, but a whole architectural complex of several high-rise buildings made in the same style and interconnected by means of arches and courtyards.

The style of the building tends to eclecticism. It is based on Art Nouveau, but some design elements clearly indicate the influence of Gothic and traditional Russian style.

The merchant of the first guild bread-trader N.M.Polezhaev through the efforts of the talented architect I. Yakovlev knew how to attract rich customers. The apartments in the house occupied more than one hundred meters. The richest apartments were inhabited by merchants of the highest guild, and the simpler apartments were rented by engineers and middle-level merchants. But, alas, it only lasted two or three years: the revolution turned this luxury house into a multitude of communal apartments, populated by a rather large and motley group of tenants.

Now the house is also known for the fact that director V. Bortko shot scenes with an apartment at Sadovaya, 302 bis for the film based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita.