Dubovskiy Saint Ascention Female Monastery was founded by archpriest Joann Alexeevich Pokrovsky, who served in Uspensky temple situated in settlement Dubovka.

In 1864 Joann purchases a house with a garden and two ponds near the settlement.

In 1865 a little outbuilding was built there. And five women started to live there. In 1865 the first solemn service took place, and this date is considered to be the date of the foundation of the monastery. In 1866 the construction of a larger building with two floors started. And a temple in honour of Saint Ioann Precursor was build. It was sancritified in 1866. But in 1867 there was a big fire, which ruined all wooden parts of the temple, but people managed to save the church.

Kirill Orlov was the first priest of the church. The inhabitants of the settlement Dubovka helped monks and nuns.

In 1876 Tikhon, who had come to settlement Dubovka on the occasion of sancrifying Voskresensky. Temple, bowed to ashes of the priest and asked to forgive him for everything.

30 cells were located in this house, there was a special room for women’s needle-work and a dining room. And in 1880 the first stone Voznesensky cathedral was founded.

Merchant Diveeva helped with money. And the other inhabitants of settlement Dubovka helped, too. In the cathedral there were two side-chapels – Tikhvin side-chapel and St. Panteleimon side-chapel. In 1888 abbess Vitalia was awarded with a golden cross from the Synod.

This sufficient number of the sisters and its stable economic situation gave the community an opportunity of applying for the status of a fully fledged monastery. Inspite of all trouble, the monastery became larger. They built some more wooden houses and a hospital for lay sisters and a school.

Mother-Superior Vitalia was ill and treasurer Avgusta was busy running the monastery. And in 1913 Mother-Superior Avgusta was awarded with a gold cross for her 45-year service to the God and people. The cloister had two temples, more than 50 other constructions – cells, Mother-Superior’s large stone house with rooms for important guests, a workshop for manufacturing carpets and colours for icons, galleys, warehouses, two wells, a house for orphans with 15 children, a house for travellers, a house for eldery women, a mill and some other buildings. Many people wanted to visit the monastery, they wanted to look at Tikhvinskaya icon of Maria. This icon was considered to be a wonder-working icon. It helped the sick.

But the time of trouble came again: the abbess with some nuns were shot by gangsters. In 1919 head of department of national education Gubin arrested two nuns because of their alleged rude attitude to the homeless children from the asylum. Voshesensky cathedral was destroyed. The second temple of the monastery was turned into a club, and then into a warehouse. There was a school for red communists, a colony for criminals, courses for mechanics, and a school for mentally underdevelopped children.

In 1991 the monastery got some church buildings back. The school was closed only in September of the year of 1995. The lay sisters had to restore all the buildings. The first priest was Sergiy Ermakow. He painted icons, too. On the 7th of November 7 the first nuns came: nun Evfalia, lay sisters Vera and Lubov.

In 1992 Ioann Pokrovsky’s crypt, which had been plundered by bolsheviks, was found. Nowadays the relic of his saint’s body is kept in the temple.

In May of 1993 nun Christina became the Sister-Superior. In 1997 she was awarded with a gold cross. Sergiy received it in 1998.

Mother Christina (Valentina) died in October of 1998 and nun Anna became abbess of the monastery. 12 young lay sisters lived in a new house in cells in 1996.

The monastery has got a gas line, its own hotel for pilgrims and the main house for cells. A belfery has been built, the pond has been cleaned. The territory of the monastery has been fenced and cleaned, too. The monastery has its own kitchen gardens, stalls for cows, a bakery and a workshop.

In 2000 37 lay sisters live there. The monasterty has its church in Volgograd – Ioann Precursor temple, built in 2001. Deputy of the State Duma Evgeniy Ishenko, who was appointed the Head of the administration of Volgograd later, supported this initiative financially.