The village of Yeltsino is located 50 versts from Vladimir and 39 versts from the district town of Pokrov. In the patriarchal tax records of 1646, there is mention of "the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in the village of Yeltsino in Maloye Rozhko," and in 1667 it was noted that there were altars in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at this church.

In 1713, the boyar Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Khovansky, a local landowner, built a new wooden church in Yeltsino, consecrated in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The consecration was entrusted to the igumen of the Volosovo Monastery, Nikolai. In 1819, instead of the dilapidated wooden church, a stone temple was built in Yeltsino in honor of the Assumption of the Mother of God, funded by local landowners I.N. Rimsky-Korsakov and Countess Ekaterina Petrovna Stroganova. It is likely that a stone bell tower was also erected at this time. In 1836, a warm church in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was arranged under the bell tower, and the bells were placed in the dome of this church.

The church is well supplied with utensils, vestments, holy icons, and liturgical books. The church archive contains the founding charter of 1813, issued by Bishop Xenophon, copies of metric books since 1803, and confession lists since 1829. The church staff includes a priest, a deacon, and a psalmist. Their maintenance is supported by income from arable and haymaking land up to 100 rubles, interest capital of 11 rubles, and from services and sacramental rites up to 600 rubles a year. The houses of the clergy are located on church land. The parish includes the village of Yeltsino and 8 villages, where the clerical records list 715 men and 760 women. Since 1883, a zemstvo public school has been operating in the village of Yeltsino.