The village of Nesterovo, located by the Shutov stream, is 22 versts from the district center and 95 versts from the provincial city. According to the scribal books of 1628 and 1629, the village of Nesterovo, also known as Telezhovo, belonged to the landowners: Princess Anisya Urusova and the Polozov brothers.

On the land owned by Urusova, there was a church in the name of the Transfiguration of the Lord, which at that time was not used for services. Next to this church was another, side chapel, in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, made of oak with a tented roof. In the side chapel, all church property, including icons, royal gates, vestments, and books, belonged to the landowners, and services were held there.

In the patriarchal salary books, only the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is mentioned in Nesterovo. According to the census books of 1678, the village of Nesterovo was recorded as a hamlet of the village of Smolensk, which also belonged to Princess Urusova.

There is no information on how long the Nicholas church existed in Nesterovo, but in the documents about the churches of Pereslavl district from 1799, a wooden church in the name of the Transfiguration of the Lord is mentioned, built by Senator Pyotr Sergeyevich Svinin.

In 1841, a descendant of this church builder, retired rotmistr Pyotr Pavlovich Svinin, built a stone church with a bell tower and consecrated it in the name of the Transfiguration of the Lord. However, the old wooden church in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker remained in the village. The altar in the stone church was renamed in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker after repairs in 1868 in memory of the former Nicholas church. The church was well supplied with utensils, vestments, holy icons, and liturgical books.

Church documents are kept in perfect order, including copies of the metric books.