Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. Peter (№ 194817)

Two weeks feasted Moscow, as was supposed, on this occasion. Many respectable people became sick and died from those peers. <...> Each night over the Kremlin towers soared missiles, the walls were spinning wheels of fire. Have dobrovoles and doshutilis on the cover until the great fire. Flashed in the Kremlin, engaged in the China-town, the wind was strong, bunt carried over the Moscow river. Waves of flame went around the city. The people ran to the outposts. Saw the smoke, the fire jumped Peter for the Dutch fire the tube. Nothing could be saved. The Kremlin burnt down, except for the Rye courtyard and Kokoshkina choir - burned down the old Palace (barely managed to pull the Princess Natalia Tsarevich Alexei) - all orders, monasteries, a warehouse of military equipment; at the Ivan the Great bell fell, the largest, at eight thousand pounds, - split.