Even though Therapont, after arriving to Mozhaysk, expressed very clearly his wish to return to the White Lake, the prince never let him go.

They made a deal, and Therapont founded the Luzhetsky Monastery in Mozhaysk.

Mozhaysk, together with the monastery, was transferred to the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the middle of the 16th century.

Most of the current architecture of the monastery, including the bell-tower, the Transfiguration Church, and the cells, were built in the 17th century.

In 1812, during the Napoleonic Wars, the Luzhetsky monastery was briefly occupied and plundered by the advancing French army.