In 1810 home in those days, Living area (now a Museum) ended the construction of the mansion of the merchant Philip Kateeva (koteneva). The author of the project was the provincial architect V. I. Suranov, according to the idea of a merchant's mansion which had similarity with courtyard Seating while creating a single composition and showing the direction of future developments. The facade of the house with a projecting portico of eight columns, based on the arcade first floor, goes to Holy Trinity Cathedral, the "face" of the hotel courtyard (now in its place Control LDP). The two-storey house is considered to be due to located in the Central part of the corridor for the passage into the yard. Four rooms on the first floor that overlooked the arcade gallery and were adapted for retail shops, and from the middle of the room on the second floor was a balcony, which is situated between the Central columns of the portico.

Until 1830, the mansion changed his master at M. A. Ustinov – rich wine-salt of the farmer, who in turn sold him to the spiritual office (the Holy Synod). At that time there was a sharp question about the opening of a theological Seminary, and after inspection of the best houses in Saratov, the Commission religious schools chose four houses (including the mansion koteneva) with all buildings and furnishings. The students of the College were: N. G.Chernyshevsky, I. I. Vvedensky (the first translator of the novels of Thackeray and Dickens), and taught Asian studies and anthropology and historian G. S. Saburov (the first translation of the Quran in Russian language).

When in 1885 a new building was constructed at the intersection of Seminary street and the Alexander Small Sergius, the house became the second men's gymnasium, and in 1904 - the second male real school named crown Prince Alexei (where he studied actor B. A. Babochkin). In Soviet times, the building belonged to secondary educational institutions, is now Russian classical gymnasium.