lucksor In the 10thcenture, in 1571, 1626 and 1671 , great fires destroyed whole quarters ofMooscow. In March 1669 when Tsar Alexis was forty , his first wife, TsaritsaMaria Miloslavskaya died. On May 30, 1672,at one o clock in the morning a largehealthy boy was born. The baby Peter, four weeks old, was christened on june 29.In the first decade of its existence, first  saw Kotlin Island and decided to build afortress there to protect St. Petersburg from the sea. In 1703, Peter I had openedRussia’s “window on the West”. St. Petersburg grew rapidly, there were 34,500buildings in the city. By 1711, two additional seaports, Riga and Reval, alongwith St. Petersburg, As a result by 1714 St. Peterburg became an importantcommercial port.