At the end of the 1820s, Ivan Sukhozanet, an artillery general, hero of the Patriotic War of 1812 and director of the Imperial Military Academy, became the owner of the building. The general was married to Ekaterina Beloselskaya-Belozerskaya and in 1830 a mansion in the style of late classicism was erected in front of the Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace according to the project of Dementiy (Domenico) Quadri. All guests especially notice the lobby, decorated with spectacular columns lined with artificial marble.

In 1864, after the death of Ivan Sukhozanet, his son Alexander was forced to sell the mansion to the St. Petersburg Merchant Society because of his father’s huge gambling debts.

Later, the building housed the headquarters of the Commercial and Industrial Union, and in 1933 it was occupied by the “Spetsmashproekt” institute, which developed the production of armored vehicles. In 1972, the building at 70 Nevsky Prospect became the “Journalist’s House”. In 2012-2016 the House underwent major restoration and was formally opened on December 24, 2016. Nowadays, the restored mansion on Nevsky Prospect houses the Union of Journalists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region – a professional corporation of media workers, an independent public organization that unites about 2,500 journalists, as well as editorial teams and offices of other journalistic associations of the city.

The heart of the House is its 120-seat concert hall, also renovated and re-equipped by 2016.