Today, the territory is part of the Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast (province) in northern Ukraine.

The location is situated in the Mezhyhirya ravine, on the right bank of the Dnieper River in close proximity to the Kyiv Reservoir.

[1] Throughout its existence, it was destroyed, and then restored numerous times, yet it was not spared destruction by Soviet authorities in 1935.

At the time of its height, the Mezhyhirya Monastery was considered a spiritual center of Rus royal Rurikid house and later Cossacks.

[2][3] Currently, the area of the former monastery is located on a fenced-in woodland territory next to Novi Petrivtsi village and is now a museum.

The monastery was mentioned in one of Taras Shevchenko's poems, "Chernets," written in 1847,[4] and was the subject of a drawing by him.

[1] The claim is likely spurious, since Mezhyhirya is not listed by modern authors among the monasteries of Kievan Rus'.

[7] In 1154, the Prince of Suzdal Yuri Dolgorukiy divided the territory surrounding the monastery's grounds amongst his sons.

[8] His son Andrey Bogolyubsky received the lands nearest to the monastery, now the city of Vyshhorod.

The universal (act) of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky issued on May 21, 1656 transferred the neighboring settlements of Vyshhorod, Novi Petrivtsi, and Moshchun under control of the Mezhyhirya Monastery.

With the help of Ivan Savelov, a monk who lived in the monastery and later became a Patriarch of Moscow,[10] the complex was reconstructed.

Ukrainian architect Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi designed some of the buildings, including the monk's residence.

[17] After the Russian Revolution, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic's capital moved from Kharkiv to Kyiv in 1934, and the city was in need of a suburban residence for government officials.

[19] There were speculations that the discovered books belonged to the lost library of Yaroslav the Wise,[20][21] or perhaps of a later period, during the times of the Zaporozhian Host.