Named after the main cathedral (originally wooden) and the nearby Kuksa River. The existing Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Savior was built in 1673. Somewhat later, at the end of the 17th century, the winter Church of the Entry into the Temple and a free-standing tent-roofed bell tower were built. It is known that in addition to these structures that have survived to this day, the complex included a wooden Pokrovskaya Church (the time of its construction has not been established). The monastery was surrounded by a brick fence, dismantled in the 1940s.
All the buildings were built of brick. The Vvedenskaya Church is whitewashed over the plaster; traces of the plaster have also been preserved in the cathedral and bell tower. The oldest of the existing monastery complexes in the region, including architecturally expressive religious buildings in the style characteristic of the Vladimir-Suzdal architecture of the 17th century.
There is a version that the fugitive Grishka Otrepyev hid within the walls of this monastery for twelve weeks. Also, according to the version of the famous local historian Vladimir Borisov, the leader of the people's militia that defeated the Polish invaders in the summer of 1612, Prince Dmitry Pozharsky, spent the last years of his life in Serbilov. According to legend, the Serbilovsky Monastery was visited at various times by royal persons: the wife of Tsar Ivan Alekseevich Praskovia Feodorovna with her three daughters and the first wife of Peter I Evdokia Lopukhina.
In August 1960, the ensemble of the Spaso-Kukotsky Monastery, namely the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral, the Vvedenskaya Church and the tented bell tower were included in the list of cultural monuments subject to protection as monuments of national importance.
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