Spassky-Raifsky, also known as the Spassky-Raifsky-Kezovsky Monastery, is located in the village of Spasskoye in the Bor district of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. It was founded in the early 17th century by settlers from Moscow. The monastery actively developed cultural life, and it was here that the legend of the city of Kitezh was first recorded. One of the historically significant objects is the monastery's synodic, which is now kept in the Russian State Library. In the monastery's treasury, there was a chalice from the palace church of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, which is mentioned in the notes of V. Dal, who visited the village of Spas in the mid-19th century. In 1713, the monks of the monastery were accused of schism and exiled, after which the monastery became a women's convent. It functioned in this status until 1764, when it was abolished during the reform of monastic states.

Today, the monastery complex has preserved the church in honor of the Origin of the Honorable Trees of the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord, built in the last third of the 17th century, and the church of the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos, which was originally built of wood in 1716 and reconstructed in stone in 1760. Currently, the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Public Organization 'Cultural and Educational Center 'Spas-Istok'' is implementing a project to revive the monastery.