The first documented mention of this church dates back to 1638, but even then it was listed as abandoned, and the church land was vacant and rented out to various people. This indicates that the church was built even earlier. By 1656, the owners Peter and Mikhail Bashev erected a new church in honor of the Intercession on the vacant land, and the settlement was named Pokrov-Bashevsky. It is known that Stepan Bashev held the position of Vladimir district elder in 1603. The memory of the ancient noble family of Pestrovo was also preserved here. On a silver altar cross, there was an inscription that on January 1, 1763, Captain Yegor Stepanovich Pestrovo donated it to the church in memory of his parents. Captain of the 2nd rank Nikolai Egorovich Pestrovo was the Murom district leader of the nobility from 1812 to 1817.

The Pokrovsky church, standing for over 100 years, burned down in 1764, and a year later a new wooden church was built in its place. The Pokrovsky parish was extensive and included many villages. Large fairs were held on the feast day by the pond near the church. The new church turned out to be too cramped, so it was decided to acquire a large church log cabin from the village of Novo-Nikolayevsk. In 1790, the church was transported and installed at the settlement, consecrated, but it also burned down in 1823.

The next church was decided to be built of brick. In 1825, the stone Pokrovskaya church was consecrated, and in 1842-1844, with the funds of landowner Captain A.K. Rameikov, a warm chapel in honor of the holy righteous Prince Alexander Nevsky was arranged. In 1884-1887, the chapel was expanded.

In 1942, under the leadership of the chairman of the Arsamakovsky village council, the bells were removed from the church and church utensils were taken away. When the residents of Popovichi came to the church, the doors were wide open, almost all the icons had disappeared, and church books were lying on the floor and used for rolling cigarettes. A period of destruction began under the leadership of local chairmen. The farm in Gridino was called "Ant Hill," and in Popovichi, "Path to Socialism."

First, the brick pillars of the church fence with wrought iron grilles were dismantled for economic needs, then the entrance gates with a wicket. In the 1940s, the school burned down, and now a corner of the modern cemetery, closest to the Vladimir highway, is located on its site. The remaining houses were moved to Gus-Khrustalny. The building of the Pokrovskaya church was used for a subsidiary farm and a warehouse for city trade, where grain was threshed and winnowed, and goods were stored. However, the trade owned the church for a short time, and soon it became deserted again. The roofing iron was removed from the roof.

In the 1970s, the tiled floor was dismantled for personal needs, and wrought iron grilles were pried out of the window openings. Burials began to be conducted haphazardly, often over the bones of ancestors. The altar area was repeatedly dug up. At the main entrance to the cemetery, the remains of a granite tombstone of Madame Rameikova still lie, whose husband founded the Ivanishchevsky and Novo-Alexandrovsky glass factories. It is now impossible to restore the exact burial place of Captain Rameikova, as well as the grave of Alexander Karpovich Rameikov, who was buried here in 1865.

In 2003, due to dilapidation, the last of the two crosses fell from the church. In the same year, in the presence of Bishop Evlogy, a new brick church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin was laid in the village of Anopino.