The village of Malaya Tavolozhka is located in the northern part of the Pugachev district, on the right bank of the Bolshoy Irgiz River. It was founded in 1855 by Old Believers as the Russian estate village of Malaya Tavolzhanka, situated on the postal route between Nikolaevsk and Samara.

According to the decree of the Samara Spiritual Consistory dated February 7, 1897, for missionary purposes, Malaya Tavolozhka was assigned to the parish of the Upper Spaso-Transfiguration Monastery. In 1901, a literacy school opened in the village, which became a church parish school in 1904. Administratively, the village was part of the Tavolzhanskaya volost of the Nikolaevsky district of the Samara province.

The main attraction of the village is the Old Believer church in honor of Archangel Michael, built in 1909 at the initiative of Archimandrite Makariy, the abbot of the Spaso-Transfiguration Monastery, in celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. The church was made of stone, warm, with one altar and a bell tower, but had sparse decoration. Its staff included a priest and a psalmist, who lived in specially built houses. With the advent of Soviet power, the church was closed and is now in a neglected and partially ruined state.

On April 28, 2014, decree No. 32 was issued establishing the Archpriest's residence of the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the village of Malaya Tavolozhka. On June 10, 2017, Bishop Pakhomiy of Pokrovsk and Nikolaev conducted the rite of Great Consecration and the first Divine Liturgy at the Archpriest's residence of the church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God 'Spanish.'