Varlaamo-Khutyn Savior Transfiguration nunnery is located 10 km north of Novgorod. The life of the monastery is closely connected with the name of its founder Varlaam Khutynsky, one of the most venerated saints in the north of Russia. Monastery appeared in the XII century. to "lean spot", are at the mercy of evil forces. The power of prayer Varlaam managed to exorcise evil spirits and build a temple - the Church of the Transfiguration. Unfortunately, the temple was not preserved.

In 1515 on the site of the old temple of the Saviour was built a new Transfiguration Cathedral with five domes. Particularly noteworthy is the western porch of the cathedral with a porch, decorated with tiles. In the cathedral he buried the ashes of the great Russian poet Gavriil Derzhavin and his wife Darya Alexeyevna. Derzhavin died in 1816 at his home in the estate "Zvanka." The coffin with the body of the deceased on a barge on the Volkhov went to his last resting place. During World War II, the monastery was destroyed. Victims and grave of Derzhavin. In 1959 he took the reburial of the poet and his wife in the Novgorod Kremlin. In 1993, in connection with the 250th anniversary of the poet, his remains were returned to the monastery.

Next to the Cathedral of the Transfiguration in 1552. Varlaam built the refectory church, which is a pillarless construction, to which is adjacent to the west side of the Chamber are dvuhstolpnaya refectory. The church and the refectory have two floors.

After the closure of the monastery in the monastery of the institution of the OGPU. During the Great Patriotic War almost all the buildings of the monastery have been hit hard. After the war it housed a hospital for the mentally ill, and before that housed the tractor station. In 1970-1980. the monastery was organized by the recreation area for the tourists.

Since 1992, the monastery began to revive monastic life. Now Khutyn Monastery is a place of pilgrimage for the inhabitants of Novgorod and the surrounding villages. From the main gate of the monastery is a dirt path leads to the sacred well. Going round the Transfiguration Cathedral and coming over the fence, you can see a small chapel on the hill, the land for which he inflicted Varlaam Khutyn.