The history of the Vvedenskaya monastery begins with the abolition of the Antoniev desert in the early 18th century, a small monastery around which the settlement of Pokrov already existed. Monks Sergey and Timofey, having left the Antoniev desert, settled on the island of Lake Vyatka, where they built a wooden chapel and cell. Thus, in 1708, the Holy Vvedensky Island Monastery was established. News of the new monastery quickly spread, attracting those wishing to join the brotherhood. Soon, the number of monks increased so much that they appealed to Peter I for permission to build their own church on the island. In 1710, a wooden church was erected from local timber, consecrated in honor of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple. The original chapel built by Sergey and Timofey was moved to the Vladimir tract to collect donations for the needs of the monastery. The chapel brought in a small income but was repeatedly subjected to looting and was dismantled in the early 1740s. In the second half of the 18th century, the chapel was restored in stone, and in the 1880s it was relocated following the changed Vladimir tract. Next to it, a one-story brick house for novice monks was built. Until 1918, on the feast of Ilya, the monks made a procession from the desert to the chapel.

In the 1870s, the winter church of Nicholas the Wonderworker was rebuilt and expanded. From 1891 to 1894, the old Vvedensky church was replaced with a new one made of red brick, also with five domes. The iconostasis was silvered and gilded, and the walls were painted with images in the 'Greek script.' A bell tower was built next to the church, and brick buildings for cells, the abbot's residence, and a fence were erected around the perimeter of the island. Among the donors for the reconstruction and new construction were the industrialists Morozovs.

In 1918, the monastery was closed, and its property was nationalized. The territory was used for juvenile correctional institutions, and the domes and drums were cut off from the churches. On September 16, 1991, the executive committee of the Vladimir Regional Council of People's Deputies decided to transfer the buildings of the churches and monasteries to the Vladimir Diocese. Based on this decision, the island churches were returned to the Church. On October 6, 1993, by the decree of Archbishop Evlogy of Vladimir and Suzdal, a monastic community was established as a dependency of the Murom Holy Trinity Novodevichy Monastery. On June 6, 1995, by the resolution of the Holy Synod, the dependency was granted the status of a women's monastery. The Nikolsky church was the first to be restored, followed by the Vvedensky cathedral. The monastery has a gold embroidery workshop, produces church utensils, and restores old icons. Excursions are conducted, and pilgrims and guides are invited to the monastery's refectory. In 2001, a brick bell tower with new bells was built to replace the destroyed one. Some of the bells were made in the workshop of the Shuvalov brothers in Romanov-Borisoglebsk, and some at the M. V. Khrunichev factory.

In 2007, near the monastery, at the approach to the island, with the blessing of Abbess Fevronia, a children's shelter-pansionat 'Ark' was built, where girls of various ages began to be accepted, some with their mothers, who had nowhere to go due to life circumstances.