The village of Polovetskoye is located by the Smorodinovka River, 27 versts from the district town and 150 versts from the provincial capital. In 1623, Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich transferred it to the Pereslavl Nikitsky Monastery. The church in Polovetskoye existed even before the transfer to the monastery. The land books of 1628 and 1629 indicate that on the site of the church of the holy prophet Elijah, which burned down during the Lithuanian devastation and disappeared no later than 1611, there was a church place.

On this vacant church land, a new church was built in 1679 at the expense of the monastery, relocated from the village of Filimonovo, which also belonged to the monastery. It was consecrated in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. According to the inventory of 1702, it was a modestly decorated wooden church, without a separate bell tower, with two bells on posts. In 1711, the church was rebuilt and reconsecrated in honor of the same holiday. In 1770, the church was rebuilt again, adding two altars: the main one in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and a side altar in the name of the holy prophet Elijah. A wooden bell tower was also built.

In 1819, with funds from the parishioners, a stone temple with a bell tower was erected in place of the wooden church. This church has three altars: in the cold part in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and in the warm chapels in the name of the holy prophet Elijah and the holy evangelist Luke. A canopy is installed over the altar in the cold church.

The church is well supplied with utensils, vestments, holy icons, and liturgical books. The main icons have silver covers. The church archive contains an instruction for the dean from 1753 and an excerpt about the church land from 1756. The documents are preserved intact, including copies of the metric books from 1779 and confession lists from 1829.