Studying of the Nizhegorodsky region past times were made in plenty of ethnographical works, which explored its various sides. However, due to as things went in Soviet historiography, the vast number of problems either were not considered at all, or were described from the certain class positions.

To such problems belongs the following: History of Russian Church, Russian Church Personalities, and Russian Church Culture Buildings. The latter, in particular, were interested from the architectural point of view: the vaulting time of temple or monastery, their construction peculiarities and so forth, which undoubtedly has impoverished the monument's history. This badly effected the history of Nizhegorodsky land monasteries, for they were not only the centers of clerkly activity, but also the centers of culture in our ancestors' distant lives.

Gorodets's St. Theodor's (Pheodor) tenement was not exeption of the rule. You could not find the monasteries through all Nizhegorodsky land, which by the foundation time could be compared with mentioned sanctity.

It should be noticed that monastery's life cycle for many centuries could be divided into two periods -- the first, rather legendary, than historic, and the second (from the yearly part of eighteenth century a.d.) coming with manuscripts' confirmation.

Usually the foundation of old tenement is associated with the creation of town Gorodets, built on the steep left bank of the river. It was founded, according to townspeople's belivings, by Prince Georgy (Yuri) Vladimirovich Dolgoruky. Now we could only guess whether Prince Yuri Dolgoruky had built the Volga's fortress by himself, or not. The only thing is out of doubt -- that is the fact of Gorodets's appearence during his rule.

During the building of fortress (or "Small Kitezh"), according to clerkly tradition, the builders addressed to Prince with appeal to tranfer the Icon of St.Maria Odihytria (Guider) from stayng near old, unknown temple.

The town founder together with builders and clergy had come up to the Icon, but altar-piece could not be "fetched up". The Prince, being impressed by that sign, kinged to create a coenobite's tenement on that place in the honour of St. Our Lady. In pursuance with famous "Kitezh annalist", it follows, that Grand Duke (in text he was named as Yuri Vsevolodovich -- Y.G.) "seeing... the pleasure of St. Old Lady, where she choosed the place for herself, kinged the building of monastery at that place".

It could follow, from the text above, that the temple was placed outside the established fortress, and so monastery was founded outside the town bank.

Unfortunately, we could not determine neither the definite foundation date of monastery, nor the place where it was built. According to opinion of christian church historians, all monasteries at that distant time were the elements of town structure and inner constitution of duke's governing, so they should be placed inside the town or its suburbs.

Basing on the fact, that as a rule, tenements were built along rivers, we could consider the same about St. Theodor's -- as overlooking above the Volga's waters. It should not be excluded, that first coenobites' cells were built on brae -- the place used in future by clergy for councel (the place near today's monument to A.V. Vorozheikin). P.I.Melnikov-Pechersky, famous writer and ethnographer, also was induced to think that on the aforementioned place could stand coenobite's tenement some time ago, but embarrassed to answer which by name.

Some plane ground, situated nearer to Volga, say half a hill, could be used for stand-in allocating of saint tenement, as, for instance, Blagoveshensky (the Annunciation) or Pechersky monasteries in Nizhny Novgorod.

In nineteenth century the opinion prevailed among citizens of Nizhny Novgorod, that Volga's waters ingulfed the ancient monument buildings, i.e. the placement of monastery was assosiated with riverside again.