The story of the convent began at the end of the 17th century when two monks of St. Anthony's Hermitage, Sergius and Timothy, moved to the island of Vyatsky Lake and built a wooden chapel and a cell there.

By the beginning of the 18th century, the number of monks on the island had grown so much that they decided to ask for the blessing to build their own island church — a church in the name of the Entry of the Holy Virgin into the Temple.

The remote convent was named Vvedenskaya Island Hermitage, and the lake was given a new name — Vvedenskoye.

The monastery was closed in 1918. The island's buildings and territory were first used as a home for the elderly and disabled, and then as an orphanage. In 1932 a girls' penal colony was established here.