Macarius Nevsky was a prominent Russian Orthodox hierarch who served as the Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna between 1912 and 1917. Born in 1835 in Šapkino, he dedicated much of his career to missionary work in the Altai region, where he earned the nicknames "Apostle of the Altai" and "Siberian pillar of Orthodoxy." A scholar and translator, he played a vital role in religious education and linguistic studies during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Russian Empire.