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Florovsky monastery was first mentioned in documents of the 16th century, at least in 1566 a letter was issued to Prince Konstantin Ostrog, according to which the territory of the monastery was transferred to Archpriest Iakov Gulkevich, who resumed the activity of the monastery (that is, it existed before). In 1682, there is already a mention of the fact that there was a nunnery with two churches in Podil, one of which bore the name of the Martyr Florus.

However, from the moment the monastery was resumed until the beginning of the 18th century, the Florovsky Monastery had difficulties with finances, so it practically did not develop. Only in 1712, after the closure of the Women's Resurrection Monastery and the transfer of the nuns who lived there to the Florovsky Monastery, did the monastery flourish, since all the possessions of the closed monastery passed into the ownership of Florovsky.

Not long after the transfer of the nuns in the Florovsky Monastery, they begin to build a new, now stone church of the Ascension. After the consecration of the temple in 1732, the monastery began to be officially called the Holy Ascension Florovsky. In addition to this temple, everything else was wooden, so it burned down in the famous Kiev fire of 1811. The following year, funds were allocated from the treasury for the restoration of the monastery, on which stone buildings were erected. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the entire territory of the monastery was built up with stone and wooden buildings (a hospital, an almshouse and several more churches).

During the Soviet era, the monastery was closed, destroying the Church of the Holy Trinity. The revival of the monastery began only during the German occupation, and although Kiev was subsequently liberated, the monastery was no longer closed, although it continued to endure oppression from the authorities. Today he continues to develop and develop traditions of spirituality.

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