The village of Vashka is located by the Vashka River on the Moscow-Yaroslavl highway, not far from the border of the Yaroslavl province. It is 120 versts from the provincial city and 24 versts from the district center. As early as the 15th century, the lands were granted to the archimandrite of the Moscow monastery, Theodosius, by the elder German Alexandrovich Okorokov. In the census books of 1678, the village of Yermolino and the villages of Kirkhova, Pogost, Slobodka Vashka, and Oderikhino are mentioned on the lands of the Chudov Monastery, which had 84 peasant households and 35 landless households, totaling 442 people, as well as 1 empty household and 1 fishermen's household.

According to the scribal books of 1628 and 1629, there was a church in Yermolino dedicated to the Nativity of Christ. At the same time, there was a church in the village of Pogost dedicated to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker with an altar in honor of St. Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow. In 1722, at the request of the nobleman Dmitry Semyonovich Rodyshevsky and Captain Gavrila Mikhailovich Redrikov, permission was granted to build a separate church in honor of Alexius, Metropolitan, next to the Nicholas church. In 1737, the Nicholas church was struck by lightning and burned down, but the holy icons, antimins, and altar were saved. A new church was not built to replace the burned one; instead, the warm church in honor of St. Alexius, Metropolitan, was repaired and consecrated.

In 1776, with the permission of Bishop Anthony of Pereslavl, the construction of a stone temple began with funds from Brigadier I. I. Rodyshevsky and parishioners. In 1782, an altar was arranged and consecrated in honor of St. John the Baptist, and the main church was consecrated in 1786 in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. This church, significantly altered, has survived to this day. It has four altars: in the cold one, in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, and in the warm altars, in honor of the Nativity of Christ, Archangel Michael, and St. John the Baptist.

Above the main altar is a canopy supported by four angels; on the royal gates is a carved image of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos; on the altar is a silver, gilded ark for storing the holy gifts with cast images at the tomb of the Lord: the Mother of God, the holy myrrh-bearing women, and angels. Another ark was donated by the church builder in 1764. Behind the altar is an icon of the Lord Almighty in a rich kiot with carved images of Archangels Michael and Gabriel. Behind the altar is a cross with particles of holy relics, on which is inscribed: 'this life-giving cross was built in the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, located in Vashka, by the construction of worldly people in 1716.' The church is rich in utensils, vestments, holy icons, liturgical and edifying books. The icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, which accompanied the church builder in all his campaigns, is especially venerated; the vestments on all the main icons are silver.