The wooden sideboard of the second quarter of the 19th century stood in the apartment of Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov in Nashchokinsky Lane. It was his first apartment of his own, where he moved in February 1934 with his wife Elena and stepson Sergei.

The building at 3/5 Nashchokinsky Lane was called the “writer’s extension”. The housing and construction cooperative association “Soviet Writer”, whose chairman of the board was the Soviet poet Alexander Alekseevich Zharov, reconstructed two ancient stone mansions: they were combined and built up to the level of a five-story building.

Mikhail Bulgakov was always attentive to the choice of home décor. In 1923, after he received the first decent fee, he bought a furniture set upholstered in silk for his room in communal apartment No. 50 on Bolshaya Sadovaya.

The furniture in apartment No. 44 at 3/5 Nashchokinsky Lane was not luxurious, but good-quality. It helped create an atmosphere of elegant social salon and made the living space cozier. Famous guests were welcomed there, and readings and musical concerts were held — a grand piano was bought especially for these purposes. Mikhail Bulgakov lived in this apartment until his death in 1940. Despite the fact that the house in Nashchokinsky Lane was later demolished, the interior of the writer’s apartment was preserved. It formed the foundation of the museum’s permanent exhibition.