The name of Sergei Vasilyevich Maksimov, writer, ethnographer, researcher of folk life, is well known to connoisseurs and lovers of Russian history and culture. The book "Wandering Russia of Christ for the Sake" (1877) was written by Maksimov based on his impressions of a trip to the North-Western Territory, where he was sent in 1868 by the Imperial Russian Geographical Society: the writer traveled to Smolensk, Mogilev, Vitebsk, Vilna, Grodno, Minsk provinces.