In February 1736, Prince Ivan Alexeyevich Saltykov, an adjutant of the Life Guards Cavalry Regiment, appealed to the Synodal Treasury with a request. He reported that in the village of Cherkutino, located in the Ilmekhot district of the Vladimir diocese, there was an old wooden church in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, which had greatly deteriorated and was unsuitable for services. Saltykov expressed a desire to build a new stone church on the same site and requested permission for construction. The decree was received, and that same year the church was erected. The consecration was conducted by Archimandrite Pavel from the Vladimir Christmas Monastery. The new church was octagonal, with two tiers of windows and a three-tiered bell tower, and was situated on a high bank of a pond, 50 meters from the manor house.

In the first half of the 19th century, the church was rebuilt in the classical style. After the reconstruction, it acquired the appearance that has been preserved to this day: the main volume in the form of a small octagon with a dome and a cupola, to which a narthex and bell tower were attached from the west. The Nicholas church was originally a parish church with a separate clergy, but from 1849 it became a subsidiary of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Cherkutino. The church had one altar and was equipped with everything necessary for worship.

Nearby were the estate buildings of the Saltykov family, of which the house and wing from the 18th century have survived. After the Saltykovs built a new estate in Snegiryovo, the house in Cherkutino was transferred to the church clergy. In this house, on January 1, 1772, Mikhail Vasilyevich, the future statesman of Russia, Count Mikhail Mikhailovich Speransky, was born, who was baptized in the Nicholas church.

In the 1930s, the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was closed by the authorities and used for economic purposes. Although the building has survived to this day, it requires significant restoration. During the Soviet era, the church miraculously was not destroyed or dismantled for bricks. Its premises housed a boiler room for a psychoneurological dispensary, a bathhouse, warehouses, and even a pigsty. Now, thanks to the efforts of the diocese and the public, the restoration of the church is underway.