Nikolai Vasilyevich Igumnov , director and owner of Yaroslavl Large manufactory in 1888 petitioned to build a new stone house. The house was built young architect Nikolai Pozdeev , while former city architect Yaroslavl. Mansion in pseudo-Russian style was built in 1895 on the site of a small wooden house of the merchant Nikolai Lukyanov. For the construction of brick discharged from Holland, and multi-colored tiles for decoration were made at the famous factory Kuznetsova . Home interiors were designed by the architect PS Boytsov and brother 's project , II Pozdeev . I. Pozdeev also directed the completion of the house, after the death of his brother in 1893.
