[3][4] The Bubeneč Popper house and surrounding land was confiscated by the Nazi authorities on 16 March 1939, a day after their occupation of Czechoslovakia,[3] and was subsequently used as the Prague headquarters of the Gestapo.

[3] In 1945, after the end of the war, the family attempted to reclaim the property, but were prevented from doing so due to the nationalisation decrees of Beneš, who returned to Czechoslovakia as President.

It is a widely held belief that many of these rooms were used by KGB Line X officers for means of espionage and counter intelligence.

[5] In 2020, the Prague city council renamed the plaza on which the embassy sits to Boris Nemtsov Square, after the Russian opposition politician who was murdered in 2015.

The embassy described Korunovační Street as "historical" and said "the probability of its renaming is much lower than that of the recently appeared 'Boris Nemtsov square.