Complex sentence: St. John was born Mikhail Borisovich Maximovitch in 1896 in the village of Adamovka in Kharkov province in southern Ukraine to the same family of Serbian origin as that of St. John of Tobolsk whom he was said to resemble in several respects.
Split into simpler sentences: St. John was born Mikhail Borisovich Maximovitch in 1896 in the village of Adamovka in Kharkov province in southern Ukraine. He came from the same family of Serbian origin as that of St. John of Tobolsk whom he was said to resemble in several respects.