The site, on which house 44 is now located, used to be number 32 and was located on Ligovsky Canal - Ligovskaya Street, and later the prospect appeared here only after the canal was filled up in 1891.

Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky lived in the house that was located on the 32nd plot. These walls were his last refuge - here he died.

In 1910, civil engineer Pertsov began the construction of his own Art Nouveau tenement house on Ligovsky Prospekt. Among the tenants in 1915 was the literary society “Ars” and the editorial office of the newspaper “Na Beregah Neva”.