At the corner of Tverskaya Street and Tverskoi Boulevard in the center of Moscow there is an eight-story residential building, which has long become one of the recognizable parts of the architectural ensemble of Pushkin Square. Today it is called "The House Under the Skirt" - in memory of the "Ballerina" statue that once crowned the corner tower of the building. The figure has long been lost, but the history of the house itself has preserved many details that allow us to see it not only as a monument of Soviet architecture, but as a unique point of intersection of several eras. The "Attack on Heritage" project tells for the first time how the ancient temple of Demetrius of Thessaloniki was condemned to demolition, why they first planned to erect a TASS building in its place, but finally a residential building appeared, and why the famous corner tower first wanted to be crowned with the image of a worker with a five-pointed star. The documents published for the first time make it possible to reconstruct this little-known history and follow how one of the most recognizable buildings in Taverskaia got its image and its popular name - "the house under the skirt".