Maximos, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus'

Maximus or Maximos[1][2] (Russian: Максим, Maksim; died 6 December 1305) was a metropolitan bishop of the Metropolis of Kiev and all Rus' in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

Russian chroniclers depicted these events as "The harsh-time of Batu returns.".

Some sources suggest that Tokhta and Nogai, who was effectively the co-emperor, had worked together.

Maximos was known for his ecclesiastic trips to the Golden Horde and for mediating between the quarreling princes of the north-eastern Rus' (e.g. Dmitry of Pereslav and Andrey of Gorodets, the sons of Alexander Nevsky).

Under instructions from the Khan, Maximus left Kiev in 1299 and transferred the metropolitan chair to the city of Vladimir which is situated 200 kilometers (120 mi) east of Moscow.