Holy Trinity Monastery of Antony Dymsky friary is located in the small village of Red armored car in the Leningrad region, which is 17 km away from Tikhvin and 20 km from Boksitogorsk.

The first information about the monastery appear in the life of St. Anthony, the earliest of which dates back to the 17th century. Another source of information began late 18th - early 19th centuries, which are processing the lives of St. Theodosius Totemsky. To date, the publication of the monastery survived the inventory in 1583 and ratification of the Novgorod Metropolitan Varlaam, from which we can learn a lot about the historical development of the monastery.

According to legend, the foundation of the monastery took place with the support of St Anthony in the Novgorod republic around 1200. It is known that the founder of the monastery was a student of Varlaam Khutynsky, who died in the summer of 1224 and whose relics were placed in the temple Antoniev cancer.

In mid-1409 the monastery was almost completely destroyed due to the invasion of Edigei in the Novgorod land. Seeing the approach of enemy troops, the monks had to sing a prayer service at the relics of St. Anthony and hid them under a stone slab. Available in the monastery church utensils, as well as chains and bells were hidden at the bottom of the lake Dymsky.

In 1578 again was followed by the destruction already Valaam monastery, after which he moved to the monks Antony Dymsky monastery. In 1611, the monastery once again survived the attack of the Swedish troops, but the Swedes, led by Jacob de la Gardie, and could not bring down the Assumption Monastery, for which reason decided to destroy Dymsky abode. The monastery was not able to fight back crushing the army and the monks dispersed to local neighborhoods, and the cells and the temple were completely destroyed.

In 1626 Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich issued an order to resume Antony Dymsky monastery, what gave his blessing Patriarch Filaret. Already in 1655, during the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich, overwork abbot Filaret at the monastery was built the first stone church. In 1687, the monastery was burned again, and then re-built.

It is known that during 1764 carried out the secularization of monastic estates, so Antony Dymsky monastery was closed, and its cathedral church moved to the rank of parish. Only in 1794, a petition was written by one of the Tikhvin monastery archimandrites the reopening of the monastery, which was addressed to the Metropolitan of Novgorod and St. Petersburg Gabriel. Metropolitan signed the papers for the restoration of the monastery by September 1, 1794. According to the decree of April 19, 1799 Emperor Paul donated from the state treasury for the renovation of the monastery two thousand pine trees.

In the mid-19th century, Antony Dymsky monastery has been completely renovated and refurbished, and the greatest number of wooden buildings were replaced by stone. During 1839 around the perimeter of the monastery was built a high stone wall with several towers and gates equipped with the Saints. In 1840 was built a fraternal body, and after 6 years - the second floor of this building with a kitchen and a large dining room. In 1850 it was built a lot of buildings of economic purpose, necessary for the maintenance of the monastery.

In 1919 the monastery was closed, and in 1921 the monastery premises were occupied home for the elderly and crippled. In the middle of 1929 it was created by a community located in the building of the monastery, which was engaged in the production of bricks.

After the Great Patriotic War ended in privately monastery building was established a school for tractor drivers, then here began to operate a psychiatric hospital.

In the early 1990s by Antony Dymsky monastery were only the base of the cathedral bell tower chetyrehyarusnoy, privately storey building, the premises of the church school, as well as some wooden buildings. Since 2000, carried out the restoration Antony Dymsky monastery, continuing to this day.