The sculptural composition dedicated to John of Tobolsk and Philotheus Leshchinsky is located in Khanty-Mansiysk. It features two figures standing on either side of the staircase leading to the Church of the Resurrection of Christ: Philotheus is on the left, and John is on the right. They seem to bless everyone who decides to enter the church.

Saint Philotheus Leshchinsky was born in 1650 in Little Russia to a family of modest nobility. In his youth, he graduated from the Kyiv Spiritual Academy and was married, but soon lost his wife. Deeply grieving this loss, he took monastic vows under the name Philotheus. From his first days in the monastery, he amazed those around him with his humility and spiritual feats. In 1700, Tsar Peter I commissioned the sending of a wise and pious man from Little Russian monasticism to Siberia to preach the Gospel, ordaining him as the Metropolitan of Tobolsk and Siberia. Philotheus took on this position. He faced a challenging task: the Siberian diocese stretched from the Arctic Ocean to China and from the Urals to Kamchatka. To assist in missionary work, he brought learned monks and pious people from Kyiv. In Tobolsk, he founded the first Slavo-Latin school and in 1704 gathered a choir of Cossacks. The missionaries he sent reached remote corners of Siberia, Kamchatka, and even China. The baptism of the indigenous peoples, especially the Voguls and Ostyaks, was successful.

John of Tobolsk, who lived from 1651 to 1715, was a bishop of the Orthodox Russian Church, archbishop of Chernihiv since 1697, and from 1711, the metropolitan of Tobolsk and all Siberia. He is known for his missionary and theological activities. He founded the Chernihiv Collegium, which became a prototype for spiritual seminaries, and wrote numerous poetic works. In 1700, John established a collegium in Chernihiv, a Slavo-Latin school where not only the children of the clergy but also nobles, townspeople, and Cossacks studied. Due to the high level of education provided, the school gained wide recognition and effectively became the first seminary in Russia. Following its example, spiritual seminaries were later opened in other dioceses. John also opened a printing house in the Boldinsky Trinity Monastery, where liturgical books, educational materials, and spiritual and moral writings, including his own works and translations from Latin, were printed.