MOSCOW - SCENES

Church of Maxim the Blessed on Varvarka street by the Church of St Barbara , 1698, and the English House. It is the third church at this location.The first was named for Saints Boris and Gleb before 1434. Then a stone church to St Maxim was built in 1568. The present church was built by order of Natalya Kirilovna, the second wife of Alexei Mikhailovich.