The project of apartment building No. 10 by the architect Edmund Stanislavovich Yuditsky included not only the construction of apartments as rentals, but also the creation of three large art studios in the inner building of the house.

The art studio — apartment No. 40 — on the top floor was first occupied by the artist Nadezhda Alexandrovna Panshina, then it housed the school of painting and drawing of Alexander Nikolaevich Rybkin. From 1917 to 1990, the artist Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky worked in studio 40, and then his son Mikhail.

If one clicks on the button to the left of the sign “Studio 40” on the scale model, the window of the house will light up and the studio of Pyotr Konchalovsky will appear.

The scene in this part of the scale model was based on Konchalovsky’s painting “Family Portrait”, created in 1917. The painting depicts the artist himself in the center and on the left his wife Olga Vasilyevna, the daughter of the artist Vasily Surikov. Konchalovsky’s daughter Natalia sits at the open chest further to the left, and his son Mikhail stands behind the pigment-grinding machine on the right. “Family Portrait” shows objects from the studio, which will later be often depicted by the artist: the curtain, the parquet, the pigment-grinding machine, and the chest. Konchalovsky’s wife and children lived in the house in apartment No. 24.

Pyotr Konchalovsky managed to keep his workshop to himself and prevent strangers from moving in there. Many would have wanted to settle there, for it was an attractive flat with high ceilings and large windows. In 1937, Konchalovsky’s family moved to an apartment on Konyushkovskaya Street in the Presnya district, and the artist himself continued to work in studio 40 until his death in 1956.