• It rivalled the Vladychny Monastery as the most important shrine of Serpukhov and welcomed rich patrons wishing to be buried within the monastery walls.
  • Vysotsky monastery experienced a certain decline in the XVIII century., But to the XIX century. it flourished and fame. In the 1920s. the monastery was closed.
  • The Vysotsky Monastery was founded in 1374 by the Monk Sergius of Radonezh and Prince Vladimir Andreevich the Brave.
  • At the beginning of the twentieth century, due to contemporaries' opinions, Vysotsky monastery was one of the most comfortable abodes of the Fatherland.
  • The Vysotsky monastery is an Orthodox monastery of the XIV century in the city of Serpukhov, one of the oldest in Russia and in the Moscow region.
  • On March 25 of 1991, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church took a decision to revive the Serpukhov Vysotsky Monastery.
  • The main church of the Vysotsky Monastery, the Conception Cathedral was built in the 16th century shortly after destruction by the Crimean Tatars.