 The couple regularly held balls in the residence, with frequent visitors including Alexander Pushkin.The house was passed onto their daughter, Princess Alexandra Pavlovna Lvova, wife of Prince Dmitry Aleksandrovich Lvov, and between 1870–1871 the facade of the building was designed in Eclectic style by Ferdinand Müller.In 1873, the German Ambassador declared an intention to acquire the building from Princess Lvova and the building was bought by the German Empire for housing the German Embassy to the Russian Empire that same year.