Photo Coverage: Stills from Andrei Proshkin's Drama St. Alexis

Director Andrei Proshkin and actor Maxim Sukhanov R-L at the film set of Andrei Proshkin s movie St. Alexis . The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani Beg's wife, from blindness, in 1357. Jani Beg died 1357 was a khan of the Golden Horde from 1342 to 1357. Alexius, whose name at birth was Elephtherios, was a son of Fyodor Theodore Biakont, a boyar from Chernigov who settled in Moscow and founded the great Pleshcheev boyar family. Photo ITAR-TASS/ cultural foundation Film/TV Company Orthodox Encyclopedia Photo via Newscom

Actor Maxim Sukhanov C at the film set of Andrei Proshkin s movie St. Alexis . The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani Beg's wife, from blindness, in 1357. Jani Beg died 1357 was a khan of the Golden Horde from 1342 to 1357. Alexius, whose name at birth was Elephtherios, was a son of Fyodor Theodore Biakont, a boyar from Chernigov who settled in Moscow and founded the great Pleshcheev boyar family. Photo ITAR-TASS/ cultural foundation Film/TV Company Orthodox Encyclopedia Photo via Newscom

Actors Andrei Panin and Roza Khairulina at the film set of Andrei Proshkin s movie St. Alexis . The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani Beg's wife, from blindness, in 1357. Jani Beg died 1357 was a khan of the Golden Horde from 1342 to 1357. Alexius, whose name at birth was Elephtherios, was a son of Fyodor Theodore Biakont, a boyar from Chernigov who settled in Moscow and founded the great Pleshcheev boyar family. Photo ITAR-TASS/ cultural foundation Film/TV Company Orthodox Encyclopedia Photo via Newscom

Actor Andrei Panin at the film set of Andrei Proshkin s movie St. Alexis . The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani Beg's wife, from blindness, in 1357. Jani Beg died 1357 was a khan of the Golden Horde from 1342 to 1357. Alexius, whose name at birth was Elephtherios, was a son of Fyodor Theodore Biakont, a boyar from Chernigov who settled in Moscow and founded the great Pleshcheev boyar family. Photo ITAR-TASS/ cultural foundation Film/TV Company Orthodox Encyclopedia Photo via Newscom

Actor Vitaly Khayev at the film set of Andrei Proshkin s movie St. Alexis . The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani Beg's wife, from blindness, in 1357. Jani Beg died 1357 was a khan of the Golden Horde from 1342 to 1357. Alexius, whose name at birth was Elephtherios, was a son of Fyodor Theodore Biakont, a boyar from Chernigov who settled in Moscow and founded the great Pleshcheev boyar family. Photo ITAR-TASS/ cultural foundation Film/TV Company Orthodox Encyclopedia Photo via Newscom

Actors Maxim Sukhanov and Roza Khairulina at the film set of Andrei Proshkin s movie St. Alexis . The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani Beg's wife, from blindness, in 1357. Jani Beg died 1357 was a khan of the Golden Horde from 1342 to 1357. Alexius, whose name at birth was Elephtherios, was a son of Fyodor Theodore Biakont, a boyar from Chernigov who settled in Moscow and founded the great Pleshcheev boyar family. Photo ITAR-TASS/ cultural foundation Film/TV Company Orthodox Encyclopedia Photo via Newscom

At the film set of Andrei Proshkin s movie St. Alexis . The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani Beg's wife, from blindness, in 1357. Jani Beg died 1357 was a khan of the Golden Horde from 1342 to 1357. Alexius, whose name at birth was Elephtherios, was a son of Fyodor Theodore Biakont, a boyar from Chernigov who settled in Moscow and founded the great Pleshcheev boyar family. Photo ITAR-TASS/ cultural foundation Film/TV Company Orthodox Encyclopedia Photo via Newscom

Director Andrei Proshkin at the film set of his movie St. Alexis . The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani Beg's wife, from blindness, in 1357. Jani Beg died 1357 was a khan of the Golden Horde from 1342 to 1357. Alexius, whose name at birth was Elephtherios, was a son of Fyodor Theodore Biakont, a boyar from Chernigov who settled in Moscow and founded the great Pleshcheev boyar family. Photo ITAR-TASS/ cultural foundation Film/TV Company Orthodox Encyclopedia Photo via Newscom

Actors Innokenty Dakayarov and Roza Khairulina C at the film set of Andrei Proshkin s movie St. Alexis . The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani Beg's wife, from blindness, in 1357. Jani Beg died 1357 was a khan of the Golden Horde from 1342 to 1357. Alexius, whose name at birth was Elephtherios, was a son of Fyodor Theodore Biakont, a boyar from Chernigov who settled in Moscow and founded the great Pleshcheev boyar family. Photo ITAR-TASS/ cultural foundation Film/TV Company Orthodox Encyclopedia Photo via Newscom

Actor Maxim Sukhanov C at the film set of Andrei Proshkin s movie St. Alexis . The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani Beg's wife, from blindness, in 1357. Jani Beg died 1357 was a khan of the Golden Horde from 1342 to 1357. Alexius, whose name at birth was Elephtherios, was a son of Fyodor Theodore Biakont, a boyar from Chernigov who settled in Moscow and founded the great Pleshcheev boyar family. Photo ITAR-TASS/ cultural foundation Film/TV Company Orthodox Encyclopedia Photo via Newscom

Director Andrei Proshkin and actor Innokenty Dakayarov R-L at the film set of Andrei Proshkin s movie St. Alexis . The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani Beg's wife, from blindness, in 1357. Jani Beg died 1357 was a khan of the Golden Horde from 1342 to 1357. Alexius, whose name at birth was Elephtherios, was a son of Fyodor Theodore Biakont, a boyar from Chernigov who settled in Moscow and founded the great Pleshcheev boyar family. Photo ITAR-TASS/ cultural foundation Film/TV Company Orthodox Encyclopedia Photo via Newscom

Actress Roza Khairulina at the film set of Andrei Proshkin s drama St. Alexis . The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani Beg's wife, from blindness, in 1357. Jani Beg died 1357 was a khan of the Golden Horde from 1342 to 1357. Alexius, whose name at birth was Elephtherios, was a son of Fyodor Theodore Biakont, a boyar from Chernigov who settled in Moscow and founded the great Pleshcheev boyar family. Photo ITAR-TASS/ cultural foundation Film/TV Company Orthodox Encyclopedia Photo via Newscom