Luzhetsky the monastery was founded in 1408 by St. Ferapont Belozersky, disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh, and Mozhaisk Prince Andrei Dmitrievich, son of Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy and the Duchess of St. Euphrosyne of Moscow. Funds Patriarch Joachim (Savelova) were built the present belfry with burial Sagalovich, private building stone and wall with towers. The monastery was badly devastated during the Troubles and in 1812, finally closed in 1929, occupied by housing and manufacturing. In the 1960s some of the buildings restored. Returned to the faithful in 1993.

In the centre of the monastery ensemble is the five-domed brick, crowned with light drums, the Cathedral of the Nativity of the virgin, built in 1520. In the interior of the Church during the restoration were found the remains of ornamental and pictorial frescoes of the XVI century. Near the Church stands a belfry, built in 1673-1692, with the burial Sagalovich in the lower tier.

Brick refectory with Vvedenskaya Church and gateway Church of the Transfiguration was built in the second half of the XVI century and rebuilt two centuries later. In the Church of the Transfiguration stored recently returned to the monastery the relics of the monk Ferapont.