The Pokrovsky Women's Monastery is located in the village of Bussy in Burgundy, 160 kilometers east of Paris.

In the summer of 1946, emigrant Professor V. B. Elyashevich, following the advice of Archimandrite Cyprian (Kern) and fulfilling the request of his deceased wife, transferred his estate "Cherry Orchard" with a domestic church to the nuns of the Kazan Skete in Moisenay-le-Grand. Before the war, this estate in Bussy-en-Othe often hosted Russian emigrants, including theologians, writers, and scholars, for rest and discussions. On July 2, 1946, nuns Evdokia, Blandina, and Glafira arrived there and founded a women's monastery.

Initially, the sisters prayed in a temporary chapel set up in a barn next to their house. However, soon engineer I. Znachkovsky built a small church on the monastery grounds in honor of the Protection of the Holy Virgin, which was consecrated on November 25, 1948, by Metropolitan Vladimir (Tikhonitsky) of Western Europe. The two-tiered iconostasis, analogues, and wooden decorations were created by V. V. Obolensky, the brother of nun Blandina. The icons were painted by the iconographers nun Ioanna (Reitlinger) and M. A. Struve-Elchaninov. In 1953, a chapel dedicated to St. Seraphim of Sarov was built in the garden by nun Ilaria (Bernatskaya).

In 1948, the "Society of Friends of the Monastery" was established in Paris, which legally owned all the monastery's properties. It provided financial support to the monastery and ensured its connection with the outside world.

In 1950, five new nuns joined the monastery, and soon two more joined them. After the sale of the monastery's fields, the sisters began to work only in the vegetable garden and orchard. Mother Theodosia cared for the sick and elderly, Mother Maria, who arrived from Geneva, led the choir, and nun Anna (Grunwald) was responsible for sending religious literature to Russia since 1977.

In 1969, a printing house opened in the monastery, primarily printing English translations of Orthodox liturgical books. The translations were done by nun Maria (Hamburg), an Englishwoman fluent in Church Slavonic and Greek. This work involved nun Elizabeth (formerly Duchess Elena Dmitrievna Leichtenberg), who came from Canada in 1964. These translations are used by many English-speaking parishes.

Since the 1970s, believing Russian families began to settle around the monastery.

In 1989, the monastery received legal entity status and the right to accept tax-exempt donations.

In early 2001, relics of the newly glorified righteous Alexius Medvedkov were brought to the monastery from Russia. On April 29 of the same year, Bishop Sergey laid the foundation for a new stone single-altar church designed by architect Syubas, which was roughly completed by the end of the year. On October 14, 2003, Bishop Sergey consecrated it in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord. The building is designed in the Byzantine style and has the shape of a Greek cross; it is plastered and covered with red tiles. The walls are pierced with narrow semi-circular windows and decorated with blind arcades. A massive dome is placed on a square base and topped with a gilded cross. The large apse is decorated with an arcature frieze.

In 2004, the interior painting began, and a wrought iron chandelier and a two-tiered iconostasis with icons created by the nuns under the guidance of iconographer Maria Struve were installed.

On March 12, 2004, the incorrupt relics of the newly glorified righteous Alexius Medvedkov were solemnly transferred from the Assumption Church at the cemetery of Saint-Genèvieve-des-Bois.

Today, the monastery in Bussy, along with the Lesninsky Monastery in Provemont, is a center of Russian women's monasticism in France, although there are significant differences between these monasteries regarding ecumenism.

In November 2019, after the Archdiocese of Western European parishes of the Russian tradition transitioned to the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate, the monastery remained under the jurisdiction of Constantinople.