Vysotsky monastery was founded in 1374 St. Sergius of Radonezh and Prince Vladimir Andreevich Brave. In 1571 the Crimean Tatars burned the monastery, but the monastery was restored by donations of the Naryshkin family. Often came here the mother of Peter the great, tsarina Natalia Kirillovna Naryshkina. Vysotsky monastery has experienced some decline in the eighteenth century, but by the nineteenth century it flourished and fame. In 1920 the monastery was closed. Were partially destroyed wall and all saints Church.

In the centre of the monastery is dedicated to the conception Cathedral, built on a high basement and is surrounded by bunk vaulted galleries. North side of conception Cathedral, in the very end of the gallery is a small side Church of the Nativity of the virgin. This temple is unknown when and by whom built, existed already in the late sixteenth century.

Near the Cathedral is the former refectory with the intercession Church in the nineteenth century was built the Church of the virgin. Here is one of the relics of the monastery - the icon of our lady "the inexhaustible Chalice", which attracts hundreds of pilgrims from Russia and other countries.

Modern three-tiered bell tower at the monastery was built around 1840 to replace the old, which came into disrepair and collapsed. Soon after her second tier was constructed the temple in the name of the Three Great hierarchs and Ecumenical Teachers Basil the Great, Gregory the theologian and John Chrysostom. It was consecrated in 1843 by the Holy Metropolitan Philaret (Drozdov) of Moscow. Trehsvyatitelskiy temple was the first temple, which began daily services in 1991 in the newly open abode.