Levashovo is first mentioned in documents from 1613 as the estate of the Zhukovs. The name is likely connected not to the owner but to the founder of the village, Levashov. Ardatov historians are familiar with the biography of Mikhail Mikhailovich Zhukov, who rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, served as the Vice-Governor of Smolensk, Governor of Astrakhan, managed the Caucasian Viceroyalty, and was a senator. In 1767, he participated in the work of the Commission for the development of a new Code as a delegate from the Ardatov nobility and owned the estate in Levashovo.

Interestingly, the construction of the church in Levashovo coincides with the birth year of his son, Vasily Mikhailovich Zhukov, whose career is known from various sources. At the age of 11, he was enrolled in the Izmailovsky regiment, became a sergeant of the guard in 1776, and was transferred to the Preobrazhensky regiment in 1782. In 1783, already a captain, he resigned from the guard and joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after which he went to London to serve as secretary of the Russian embassy. In 1785, he was in Copenhagen, but the following year he fell ill, submitted a request for resignation, and returned to Russia, to his native Levashovo.

According to the "Address Calendar of the Nizhny Novgorod Diocese" for 1904, the church in Levashovo, built in 1764, had three altars: the main, cold altar of the Transfiguration of the Lord, and two warm chapels: the right, of Saint Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir, and the left, of Saint Peter, Metropolitan of Kiev. It can be assumed that the left warm chapel was built by Pyotr Mikhailovich Zhukov, and his daughter Nastasia Petrovna was buried in the church.

According to local historian Alexander Bazaev, in 1786, Collegiate Councillor Mikhail Petrovich Zhukov owned 58 households with 100 men and 103 women, while 40 households belonged to Countess Varvara Petrovna Razumovskaya, likely the children of Pyotr Vasilievich Zhukov. In 1858, Collegiate Assessor Zhukov Vasily Razumnikovich, grandson of Vasily Mikhailovich Zhukov and son of R.V. Zhukov and writer M.S. Zhukova, owned 23 households and 118 serfs, while Councillor Skvorikova Praskovya Stepanovna had 24 households. In 1861, during the emancipation of the peasants, the Zhukovs transferred 197 desyatins of land to the peasants, while the Skvorikovs transferred 153 desyatins. In 1863, the Skvorikovs sold the estate to peasant Arkhip Antonovich Pestov from the village of Turtapki. The Zhukov estate remained until the October Revolution of 1917.

Today, the Zhukov estate and the graves by the church are considered lost. An expedition of the "Places of Memory-2013" project showed that the land around the church has been plowed for agricultural needs.