Soviet painters, good at drawing portraits, historical paintings and genre paintings. Soviet "National Prize" winner, the people's Republic of the Russian federation. Maximov has taught in the Soviet Union in the oil painting department of Academy of Fine Arts and the Moscow's normal college. Has participated in the creation of a large portrait of the "Moscow advanced figures in the Kremlin" and "the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences" (cooperation with the people). His representative works have "hand", "special Sashika tractor to work shifts back" etc..In 1955, according to the Sino Soviet cultural education agreement, Maksimov should be the invitation of the Chinese Ministry of culture, "Maksimov oil painting training class was held in Beijing's Central Academy of fine arts. This was part of the Soviet Union's aid to China. Oil training course for a period of two years. Students from 7 colleges and universities, the army and the press, a total of 18 people. Feng law, Jin Shangyi, Zhan Jianjun, Gao Hong, Wang Dewei, Hou Yimin, and others, and later, these people have become the main force of the Chinese oil painting. Maksimov to his noble Yide, exquisite painting techniques, as China's new training a generation of oil painters, far-reaching work.