In 1520, the Kyiv Cossack leaders appealed to the Polish government asking to allow the restoration of the Mezhyhirya Monastery. On March 12, 1523, King Sigismund I, at the request of Konstanty Ostrogski, granted a privilege in the name of Andriy Nemyrovskyi for the abbot Mykhailo Shcherbyna to restore the Mezhyhirya Monastery.
In 1683, the Zaporizhzhia Cossack Army signed an agreement with Mezhyhirya that the monastery would become a military monastery, and the monks would become the clergy of the whole of Zaporizhzhia. The Cossacks pledged to be the monastery’s parish and its ktitors (church wardens).
In 1786, the imperial authorities closed the Mezhyhirya Monastery, and in 1787, a devastating fire burned down all of its buildings. Only the Cathedral of Transfiguration of the Savior and the gate church of Peter and Paul remained intact.
Since the early 1920’s, services have been held in the walls of the ancient churches, but pressed by the leadership of the institutions located on the monastery’s territory, the Kyiv City Council decided on January 24, 1931, to withdraw the churches from the use of believers. In April 1935, the Soviet authorities passed the final verdict on the unique baroque architectural ensemble of the Kyiv-Mezhyhirya Monastery and soon blew it up with all the proletarian hatred.
