Maximovich spent most of his life studying the flora of the countries he had visited in the Far East, and naming many new species.

[1] He graduated in biology from the institution which is now University of Tartu, Estonia in (1850), he was a pupil of Alexander G. von Bunge.

He traveled extensively in southern Japan and for much of 1862 including the region of Yokohama and Mount Fuji, he ended that year in Nagasaki.

[1] He was particularly involved with the flora of Japan, following the footsteps of notably Carl Peter Thunberg, and Philipp Franz von Siebold.

[3] All pages with titles containing Maximowiczii for more species Maximovich described and named over 2300 plants which were previously unknown to science.