In the summer of 1866, Bishop Ioannikiy Rudnev from Saratov consecrated the site for the construction of the monastery. With funds from Pokrovsky, a two-story brick cell building measuring 69.4 meters was erected. The facade decor is concentrated around window openings and niches, framed with sandriks and pilasters with arched archivolts. In the autumn of the same year, a church in honor of Saint John the Baptist was consecrated in the restored part of the building, painted by Saratov artist G. I. Smirnitsky. The first rector of the church was Priest K. P. Orlov. In 1870, a fire damaged the cells and the church, but in 1876 they were restored, and the church was consecrated by Bishop Tikhon Pokrovsky in honor of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God.

In 1866, the construction of a two-story cell building with a cold house church in honor of Saint John the Baptist began. The church was consecrated in the autumn of 1866. Later, it was insulated and became a winter house church, connected to the old church of John the Baptist. In 1897, the church was rebuilt and consecrated by Archbishop Nikolai in honor of the Assembly of the Most Holy Theotokos.

In March 1922, under the pretext of fighting hunger, godless individuals conducted an inventory of the monastery's valuables and seized 2 poods and 2.25 pounds of silver. The Ascension Cathedral was the first to be destroyed, with its bricks being taken away. The second, winter church was first turned into a club and then into a warehouse. The walls of the monastery were successively occupied by a school for red commissioners, a colony for juvenile delinquents, mechanization courses, and at the end of the Bolshevik regime, a boarding school for mentally disabled children. In the 1970s, the walls with unique gates were destroyed.