Spaso-Borodinsky Monastery, a women's monastery of the Moscow regional diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, is located on Borodino Field, near the village of Semyonovskoye in the Borodino rural settlement. It was founded in memory of General Alexander Tuchkov, who died in the Battle of Borodino on August 26, 1812. This battle became the largest one-day fight in world history. The French troops began their attack at 6 a.m., and soon their soldiers stormed the Semyonovskye flashes. The army of Bagration, defending the fortifications near the village of Semyonovskoye, began to lose strength, and the 1st brigade under Tuchkov's command came to the rescue. Eyewitnesses recalled how cannonballs fell on Semyonovskoye, trees were cut down, huts were destroyed, the air was filled with noise, and the ground trembled. When his soldiers hesitated, Tuchkov grabbed the banner and rushed forward, but was struck down by grapeshot. His body could not be retrieved, and the field was so torn up that not even whole bones remained.

In October 1812, Tuchkov's wife, Margarita Naryshkina, went to the battlefield to search for his body, knowing from a letter from General Konovnitsyn that he had died at the Semyonovskoye redoubt. The search among the many fallen was unsuccessful. Recovering from her grief, she decided to build a church at the site of his death. She sold her diamonds and, with the help of Empress Maria Feodorovna, purchased three desyatinas of land, where the construction of the Church of the Savior Not Made by Hands began in 1818.

Over time, lonely women, widows, and orphans seeking solitude began to settle near the church. In 1833, when their number reached forty, the women's Spaso-Borodinsky Hermitage was registered at the request of Metropolitan Filaret.