Vudubickiy was built in the years of XI century 70x when Prince Vsevolod Yaroslavich, the son of Yaroslav the Wise, as a family monastery. Tracts name comes from a legend narrating about the order of Prince Vladimir in the time of the baptism of Rus lose all pagan idols wooden Perun and the other gods into the Dnieper. The devotees of the ancient faith of the people of Kiev were running along the river and called the gods seem to swim out and screaming "Perun vydubi! ". The place where the idols finally swam to the shore, became known Vidubichi.

The architectural ensemble of the monastery consists of a church of the Archangel Michael (1070-1769), St. George's Church (1696-1701) and the Church of the Savior (1696-1791), built in the Ukrainian Baroque style, and the refectory.

Only some of the churches of the monastery survived the centuries. One of them is the Church of the Archangel Michael, built with Vsevolod and partly reconstructed in 1769.

The monastery is the necropolis, which buried many prominent figures of science, the arts and public figures, mainly of the XIX century. Here are buried Lelyavsky, Ushinsky Afanasiev, Betz and others. It wanted to be buried Taras Shevchenko, but he was disgraced poet, so city officials are not allowed to bury him in the line of Kiev and its surroundings.