In the 13th century, Prince Roman of Bryansk, in gratitude for healing from blindness received through the Swensk Icon of the Mother of God, transferred the lands where the villages of Eliseeviči, Merkul'evo, Titovka, and Starosel'e are now located to the Swensk Assumption Monastery he founded. With the monastery's funds, a wooden church was built in honor of the Holy Martyrs Flora and Lavra. An hieromonk named Elisei was sent to conduct services, after whom the village was named. Under Catherine II, the parish of Eliseeviči became independent. However, modern researchers believe that the church that existed before the construction of the stone church was dedicated to Nicholas the Wonderworker and was rebuilt multiple times. Thus, in 1715, at the request of the priests of Eliseeviči, a new church was consecrated in the name of Nicholas the Wonderworker.

There are doubts about the identity of hieromonk Elisei, after whom the village is presumably named. Firstly, a hieromonk could not simultaneously be a parish priest and manage the monastery's estate. Secondly, the name Eliseeviči is more likely connected to the descendants of some Elisei, which would be impossible for a monk. The name from Elisei would sound like Eliseevo. Additionally, the data from the 'Historical Description of Churches and Monasteries of the Oryol Diocese' from 1905 is based on the stories of old-timers, which does not guarantee their reliability. It is possible that Eliseeviči and other neighboring villages were granted to the Swensk Monastery by Prince Roman Mikhailovich, and the name is associated with the first priest and his descendants, if they left a good memory. Moving to documented facts, the first reliable information about the village of Eliseeviči is found in the land books of 1595. At that time, there were five households of church servants, two cells for four 'starets, black-robed monks', four cells for the poor, and one monastery yard.

By the early 1840s, the old wooden church had fallen into disrepair, and the peasants decided to build a new stone church. The initiator of the construction was peasant Vasily Agapeev, and in 1843 the church was opened. A church-parish school building was constructed alongside it, which opened in 1899, where 42 students were enrolled in 1905. Exact data on the time of the church's closure is absent, but it is known that in 1930, priest Hippolyt Alexeyevich Osipov was arrested and exiled for three years. Currently, documents are being prepared for the return of the church building to the Bryansk Diocese.