The Church of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God is located on a hill by the dammed river Piskanitsa. The first mentions of settlements in the territory of the present village appear in the land registry book of the Oryol district from 1594-1595, compiled by clerk Leontiy Sofonov and scribe Dementiy Yakovlev.

At that time, there were three hamlets on the river Piskanitsa, referred to in the book as Paskonitsa, belonging to servicemen from the garrison of the Oryol fortress. The hamlet of Stepanov belonged to Stepanka Larin, son of Kovynyev, the hamlet of Nikонов to Nikona Nefedov, son of Golovin, and the hamlet of Zotov to Zota Fedorov, son of Kutepev. Each of these hamlets had three noble estates.

The first mention of the Smolensk parish dates back to 1734. The current stone church was built in 1812 (according to other sources, in 1808) by landowner and collegiate assessor Ivan Vasilyevich Krivtsov, father of Decembrist S. I. Krivtsov. The church has three altars and is unheated. The main altar is consecrated in honor of the Smolensk Most Holy Theotokos. The right chapel is dedicated to the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, while the left is dedicated to Saint Sergius of Radonezh the Miracle Worker. The most venerated icon of the church was the icon of Saint Paraskeva, which, according to tradition, was transferred from the old wooden church. Since 1896, a one-class church school operated in the village.

The church was closed in 1939, and the bell tower has not survived.