The private gymnasium for girls, which was set to relocate its headquarters to this building, was founded in 1864 by Liubovi Beliugova. At one point, it came under the management of the Bessarabian governmental Zemstva. In March 1880, Zemstva acquired a plot of land at the intersection of Gubernială and Podoliei streets (old names), so that on May 24, 1881, the foundation stone of the gymnasium could be laid. The construction of the building lasted for two years, with the project and estimate being the work of G.F. Lonsky, and supervision provided by the architect Constantin Kurkovsky. Currently, this building is under the administration of the Romanian-French Lyceum “Gheorghe Asachi” in the center of the capital.