The house was originally owned by two and Kyiv Governor Fundukleyu II, who in 1859 donated it to equip women's gymnasium. He also provided funds and facilities restructuring undertaken in 1874-1875 he was the third and fourth floors have already appeared in the 1930-1950 biennium In 1860 there opened the first women's gymnasium in Kiev, where girls receive education of all states, and not only with the "noble" families. Taken by a pupil of 9-13 years, training lasted six years and was paid, but the poor were exempted from paying part-Gymnasium retained by the city budget, and to a large extent by philanthropists. In high school worked almost the same teachers as in panel P. Galagan. During the period of her school ended about 4 million people. among them: poet Anna Akhmatova, N. historian Polonskaya-Vasilenko. High School existed to establish Soviet power in Kiev. In her home, then were different schools. In 1950 the building was nadbudovano a long time it housed the "Fashion House".