Future first Russian Emperor Peter the great was born in the night of may 30, 1672 in Terem Palace of the Moscow Kremlin. For the father, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, he was only the fourteenth child. But for the mother, the tsarina Natalia Kirillovna of the Naryshkin family, the son is the firstborn. On the eve of Peter's post, this event was marked by a very modest: the ringing of bells and lunch in Tsaritsyno Golden chamber. on June 29, the day of Saints Peter and Paul, the child was christened in the Chudov monastery and called Peter. The king-father commanded to shoot with a newborn "measure" to measure the length and width of his body - and to write an icon of the same sizes. Icon wrote a famous painter Simon Ushakov: on one side was a picture of the Trinity, and on the other face of the Apostle Peter. Under no circumstances Peter had not parted with this icon, everywhere carried with him, and after the Emperor's death, it hung above the Royal tomb
1672 in Terem Palace of the Moscow Kremlin. For the father, Tsar Alexei
Mikhailovich, he was only the fourteenth child. But for the mother, the tsarina Natalia Kirillovna of the Naryshkin family, the son is the firstborn. On the eve of Peter's post, this event was marked by a very modest: the ringing of bells and lunch in Tsaritsyno Golden chamber. on June 29, the day of Saints Peter and Paul, the child was christened in the Chudov monastery and called Peter. The king-father commanded to shoot with a newborn "measure" to measure the length and width of his body - and to write an icon of the same sizes. Icon wrote a famous painter Simon Ushakov: on one side was a picture of the Trinity, and on the other face of the Apostle Peter. Under no circumstances Peter had not parted with this icon, everywhere carried with him, and after the Emperor's death, it hung above the Royal tomb