The village of Vasilyevskoye, founded by Old Believers three centuries ago, has a rich history. The church parish here has existed since 1761, when a wooden church was built with the funds of local residents, consecrated in honor of St. Basil the Great. Initially, the settlement was called Golovino, but later became known as Vasilyevskoye.

Located in the Yurinsky District of the Mari El Republic, Vasilyevskoye is the largest settlement in the northwest region, with a population of over 300 people. Ten kilometers from the village runs the border with the Nizhny Novgorod region, and forests stretch around it. Due to the lack of roads, infrastructure, and jobs, young people strive to move to cities after finishing school. During the Soviet era, on May 31, 1939, the church in Vasilyevskoye was closed and repurposed as a club, which operated until 2008. Priest Vasily Khvoschev, who served in the church in the 1930s, was shot in the Nizhny Novgorod region on November 1, 1937. The fate of other clergymen, Ioann Vasilyevsky and Hieromonk Alexander Kutukov, who remained during those years, is unknown.

The Yurinsky District became part of the Mari Autonomous Region in 1924, and before the revolution, it was part of the Nizhny Novgorod province. Of the five churches that existed here before the Soviet persecutions, only the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk Church in the village of Yurino and the church in honor of St. Basil the Great in Vasilyevskoye have survived. Archpriest Nikolai Barsukov, the rector of the Yurino Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk Cathedral, became one of the initiators of the church's restoration. In 2001, a petition was submitted for the return of the church building to the Russian Orthodox Church. Since 2003, with the blessing of Archpriest Barsukov, a group of parishioners began to research the history of the churches in the Yurinsky District in the archives of the Nizhny Novgorod region and the Mari El Republic. It was discovered that the church in Vasilyevskoye was built in 1761 and renovated after a fire in 1842. In 1866, it was rebuilt, and in 1881, a new bell tower was added.

On October 29, 2008, the church building was transferred to the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk Church of the village of Yurino. In 2009, fundraising for the church's restoration began, and reconstruction work continued: the foundation was dismantled and laid, and the bricks were cleaned and prepared. In 2011, the bell tower, porch, and vestibule were built, and frames and doors were made.

On July 13, 2015, Archbishop John of Yoshkar-Ola and Mari El conducted a festive service and consecration of the restored church.