Vydubitsky Monastery is an ancient monastery in Kyiv. The monastery was built between 1070 and 1077 by Vsevolod Yaroslavich, son of Yaroslav the Wise. It was a family monastery of the son of Vsevolod, Vladimir Monomakh and his descendants.
It is believed that the monastery and its surroundings Vydubychi derive their name from the ancient legend about Vladimir the Baptist and the defeated pagan god Perun. It tells how Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich, on the day when he decided to christen Russia, ordered that all the wooden idols of Perun and other gods be thrown into the Dnieper. The laity, devoted to the ancient faith, ran along the river and called on the gods to appear and swim out, shouting “Perun, blow it!”. The place where the idols finally came ashore was called Vydubychi. So the legend tells. It is doubtful how the heavy idol of Perun with an iron helmet on his head and a golden mustache (as the chronicle says) could swim from the mouth of the Pochaina through the Dnieper rapids for more than 10 km and swim out. Another version of the origin of the name is from the crossing. It is known for certain that even before the Baptism of Russia in the area of ​​the monastery there was a crossing across the Dnieper. The laity crossed on "oaks" - boats hollowed out of solid oak trunks. Here, in the Vidubitsky tract, there was a large oak forest. The name Vydubichi could also be given by the underground monastery that existed before the Baptism of Russia on the territory of the Zverinetsky caves, which, after the official adoption of Christianity, “pulled” out of the ground and unworthily occupied the territory of a pagan temple on the shore near the crossing, which later became a ferry.
The Vydubitsky Monastery was the patrimonial monastery of the Monomakhoviches. In the first 120 years of its existence, the monastery quickly became the center of Kyiv's secular life. Here the princes arrange negotiations, gather the army and pray before campaigns. Many learned monks live and work in the monastery. Among them were Sylvester and Moses, who made a significant contribution to the writing of The Tale of Bygone Years. The monastery survived the invasions of Batu and Andrei Bogolyubsky, burned down several times. After the 13th century, the monastery lost its former grandeur and regained it only in the 17th-18th centuries, when it began to be built up with the money of military leaders and patrons of the arts. After sicularization, life in the monastery practically stopped and the monastery turned into a necropolis for prominent personalities.
The first buildings of the monastery were wooden and did not survive to this day. Only some of the churches of the monastery survived the centuries. One of them is the Church of the Archangel Michael, built under Vsevolod. It was a huge cross-domed temple with three limits, built using the recessed row technique. St. Michael's Church is perhaps the most ancient Christian building in Kyiv, which has survived to this day. At the beginning of the 15th century, the church and the hill on which it stood began to be washed away by the Dnieper, and for the safety of the structure, the city authorities built a retaining wall designed by the court architect Miloneg. Nevertheless, after 35 years, half of the St. Michael's Church (the dome and the entire altar part) nevertheless collapsed into the Dnieper along with the retaining wall of Milonega. The church was reconstructed only in 1769 - in the Ukrainian baroque style.
From the end of the 17th century, the monastery acquired several remarkable stone buildings: the five-domed St. George's Church in the Cossack baroque style, the Church of the Savior and the refectory were built here with the money of the Starodub colonel Miklashevsky (1696–1701). The bell tower, built with the money of Hetman Danila Apostol, was erected in 1727–1733 and built on in 1827–1831. Initially, it was designed as a gable, but when the upper tier was completed, it squinted and gave a huge crack, so the lower tier had to be bricked up, and the gate was made nearby. Most of the buildings of the monastery were restored in 1981-1985 under the supervision of the society for the protection of monuments, but some restoration work is being carried out even now, already at the expense of the monastery itself.
At the monastery there is a necropolis where many outstanding figures of science, arts and public figures are buried, mainly of the 19th century. Lelyavsky, Ushinsky, Afanasyev, Bets, etc. are buried here. Taras Shevchenko dreamed of being buried here, since, according to many of his contemporaries, this place was mentioned in his poem "Zapovit". However, he was a disgraced poet, so the city authorities did not allow him to be buried within the boundaries of Kyiv and its environs. But rather detailed sketches of the monastery of the 19th century, made by the hand of the great poet, have come down to us.

The monastery is active, belongs to the UOC-KP. Now on the territory of the monastery there is a pottery workshop, a grapevine weaving workshop, as well as a small rehabilitation center for drug patients. Restoration and painting work is underway in the churches.