Grand Duke of Moscow Vasily Ioannovich (1505-1533) wished to understand the Greek manuscripts and books of his mother, Sofia Paleolog, and turned to the Patriarch of Constantinople with a request to send him a learned Greek. Inok Maxim was instructed to go to Moscow. Upon arrival, he was instructed to translate into Slavic the interpretation into the Psalter, then the interpretation into the book of the Acts of the Apostles and several Liturgical books. In the three-volume edition, all the works of Maxim the Greek were published, excluding those that were printed in other publications. The publishers were guided by four lists of works of the Monk Maxim, which belonged to the Kazan Academic Library. The first list was written at the end of the 16th century, the rest belong to the 17th century.