Savarna has a rich history spanning several centuries. According to legend, this settlement existed as early as the beginning of the 16th century under Grand Duke Vasily III, the father of Ivan the Terrible. In 1623, instead of the old wooden church dedicated to the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, with the blessing of Patriarch Filaret Romanov, the father of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich, local landowner Prokopy Khrisanthovich Izmaylov, who owned the village of Merzyayevo in the Savarna parish, built a new wooden church with an altar in honor of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. It is known that Izmaylov served as a voivode in Tyumen and rebuilt the Tyumen fortress. In 1653, there were 6 households in Savarna, mainly inhabited by members of the church clergy, while the parish had 153 peasant households and a noble estate.

In 1721-1724, a second church was built in the settlement in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. However, in 1750, a fire nearly destroyed Savarna. Nothing could be saved; even the antimins, silk vestments, and spare Holy Gifts were burned. For almost four years, the settlement remained empty until in 1754, with the blessing of Bishop Platon Petrunkevich, a new wooden church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary with a Nicholas altar was built and consecrated. The Kazan church was not restored.

Two centuries later, in 1823, construction began on a stone church in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary with an altar in honor of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God. The work continued for a quarter of a century, and the church was consecrated only in 1848 with the blessing of Archbishop Parfeny Chertkov. The stone church was built under Priest Isidor Mikhailov, whose son, Ivan, received the surname Savarensky after his birthplace. Archpriest Ivan Isidorovich Savarensky served as the rector of the Annunciation Cathedral in Gorokhovets, and his grandson Fyodor Ivanovich Savarensky became the secretary of the Gorokhovets Congress of Justices of the Peace, receiving the rank of court councilor and hereditary nobility.

Today, there is no trace left of the stone church with a bell tower in Savarna. The cemetery existed until the 1960s, where residents of neighboring villages were still buried. Then the villages themselves disappeared. Of the 11 parish villages at the end of the 19th century, where 1,139 people lived, only 3 survived, and in two of them, only summer residents live. Only the village of Simonzevo has remained as a full-fledged settlement due to its location on the Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod highway. However, the neighboring village of Mokrovo, also located on this highway, has completely depopulated and was abolished as a settlement. Now there are only cafes and gas stations there.