The Avraamiev-Gorodetsky male monastery, located in the village of Nozhkino in the Chukhloma district, was founded in the late 14th century by St. Avraamy of Galich on the site of an old "town" on the northern shore of Lake Chukhloma. During Avraamy's lifetime, about a hundred monks lived in the monastery. After his death, the monastery was led by the abbot Innocent, a disciple of Avraamy, whom he appointed as the superior. Among the subsequent superiors, abbot Protasiy stands out, who wrote the lives of the saints Paul of Obnorsk and Avraamy of Galich. In the 14th-15th centuries, the monastery buildings were wooden. In 1608, by the promise of Tsar Vasily Ivanovich Shuisky, the construction of the first stone five-domed cathedral in honor of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos began, with an Ilyinsky chapel over Avraamy's tomb. However, due to the overthrow of Tsar Vasily Shuisky in 1610 and the Time of Troubles, the construction was completed only in 1631.

In the early 1650s, a single-domed Nikolsky church was built over the Holy Gates of the monastery, and in the second half of the 17th century, a three-tented two-story warm cathedral of the Nativity of Christ with a chapel of Avraamy of Galich was constructed. From 1764 to 1768, a stone fence with four small towers at the corners was erected. In 1857, the Ilyinsky chapel was dismantled, and a five-domed cathedral in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Tenderness" was added to the Pokrovsky cathedral, consecrated in 1867. In the first half of the 1870s, a five-tier bell tower in eclectic style was built. Until the closure of the monastery, its ensemble included a wooden chapel on the shore of Lake Chukhloma, established at the site where Avraamy originally settled.

According to the Decree of August 30, 1918, the monastery lost its legal rights and privileges, and its economy fell into decline. In 1922, the silver reliquary of Avraamy was confiscated, and its whereabouts are unknown. From the early 1920s to the mid-1930s, a children's home was located in the monastery, displacing the monastic community. At the end of 1928, the monastery was closed, and the last archimandrite Serapion met a martyr's death. From the mid-1930s to the end of the 1950s, a machine-tractor station was located in the monastery: equipment was stored in the Pokrovsky cathedral, and in the cathedral of the icon of the Mother of God "Tenderness", a stable. In the 1930s, most of the monastery fence was destroyed, the cemetery was obliterated, and the chapel on the lake shore was demolished. Until 1975, an incomplete secondary school was located in the monastery, after which the buildings were left abandoned.

The first service after 1928 among the ruins of the monastery was held on August 1, 1990, by Bishop Alexander of Kostroma and Galich. On March 25, 1991, the entire complex of the monastery was transferred to the Kostroma Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, and its revival began. On August 1, 1991, on the feast day of Avraamy, Bishop Alexander conducted the first Divine Liturgy in the monastery after a 60-year break. Under the abbess of the monastery, Igumen Nikandra Anpilogova, in April 1992, the warm church in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was restored, and on May 22, 1992, regular services began in the monastery. By the feast day of Avraamy on August 1, 1992, a bell was raised to the bell tower, and on August 1, 1993, Bishop Alexander consecrated the warm Pokrovsky cathedral. In May 1993, the miraculous well dug by Avraamy near the lake was found and cleared, and a new chapel was built over it. In October 1993, a cross was secured on the restored bell tower, and in April 1994, the bells were consecrated and raised. On June 6, 1995, Archbishop Alexander consecrated the cold church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Tenderness" with a chapel in honor of the prophet Elijah. In 1997, in memory of J. Lermontov and his descendants, a wooden chapel was erected in the monastery.