The founder of the village of Chardym, which belonged to Russian landowners, was Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn, who received these lands in 1702. The village was named after the nearby river, and before the revolution, it was also called Antonievsky in honor of the church's altar, the construction of which was permitted at Golitsyn's request in 1731 and completed in 1734.

There is a legend that in the early 1720s, Tsar Peter I, along with his wife, stopped in Chardym on the way back from the Persian campaign and organized a camp for burlaks here. In 1786, with funds from the Golitsyn family, a new wooden church was built to replace the old one, consecrated in 1790. In the 19th century, Chardym passed from the Golitsyns to Prince V. A. Shcherbatov, and then to landowner Yakovlev. On the eve of the abolition of serfdom, there were 158 households in the village, 453 men, and 460 women. The church, two factories, and three mills operated here. In 1888, a literacy school was opened, and in 1895, a zemstvo public school. In the same year, on May 16, a site for a new stone church was consecrated next to the dilapidated wooden temple, the construction of which was financed by Chardym native Ivan Nikolaevich Polish and local landowner Vladimir Nikolaevich Mikhalyevsky.

By May 1896, the construction was completed. The church had a rich iconostasis, and on the bell tower, a crystal cross and a bell weighing 139 poods were installed. On June 29, Bishop Nikolai of Saratov and Tsaritsyn arrived for the consecration of the new church, along with peasants from the surrounding areas who were expecting to see John of Kronstadt, who, however, could not attend. After the all-night vigil on the morning of June 30, His Excellency Nikolai conducted the consecration of the church in the name of St. Anthony the Great.

The parish staff included a priest and a psalmist, who lived in church houses built in 1888. There was also a wooden watchman's lodge where the parish school was located. The wooden church was dismantled and sold to Sosnovka of the Popovskaya volost, while the old sacristy, utensils, and metric books were transferred to Afanasyevka of the Chardym parish.

During the Soviet era, the village became the center of the eponymous village council. During the anti-religious campaigns, the Antonievskaya church was closed and completely destroyed.