Chmutovo is first mentioned in 1506 in a charter by Vasily III, who granted the village to the noblemen Susl and Onufriy Priklon'skiy for their merits in defending Nizhny Novgorod from the siege by Tatars and Nogais led by Khan Mukhamed-Emin. Chmutovo became the ancestral center of the Priklon'skiy family, who built a spacious estate surrounded by a fence and erected the Pokrovskaya Church. One of the earliest Orthodox structures in the Gorbatov district was the stone three-altar church in honor of the Holy and Life-Giving Trinity, built in 1679 in Chmutovo. Documents mention priest V.A. Argentov and psalmists V.I. Lebedev and S.F. Arkhangelskiy.

The parish of this church covered the population of the villages of Sosnovka, Pogorelka, Prudy, Polyana, Meshchera, Borok, and Munkino, totaling 1,093 men and 1,395 women. There were no schismatics among them.

Like in the village of Meshcherskiye Gory, the Chmutovo shrine was partially destroyed in 1942, likely for similar reasons. The destruction was partial, as the church was located in the center of the village, and the explosion could have damaged residents' homes. The surviving part of the church was used as a warehouse, which was destroyed in the post-war years. In 2005, students from Chmutovo school erected a Cross of Remembrance at the site of the church.