Luzhetsky monastery was founded in 1408 by Reverend Ferapont Belozersky, a disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh, and Mozhaisk Prince Andrei Dmitrievich, son of Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy and Princess Euphrosyne of Moscow. The funds Patriarch Joachim (Savelova) were built now existing belfry Savelova the tomb, the stone fence and housing privately with towers. The monastery was severely devastated during the years of the Troubles in 1812, finally closed in 1929, occupied by the housing and manufacturing. In the 1960s, part of the renovated buildings. It returned to believers in 1993.

In the center of the monastery ensemble is the five-domed brick, topped with light drums, the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin, built in 1520. The interior of the church during the restoration were discovered remnants of ornamental and narrative frescoes of the XVI century. Next to the temple is belfry built in 1673-1692 gg. Savelova the tomb in the lower tier.

Brick refectory with Vvedensky Church and Gate Church of the Transfiguration was built in the second half of the XVI century and rebuilt two centuries later. The Church of the Transfiguration stored recently returned to the monastery relics of St. Ferapont.