Pyotr I Alekseyevich, commonly known as Peter the Great, was born in 1672 in Moscow.

He was the son of Alexei I Mikhailovich (Tsar of Russia from 1645 to 1676, father of three successive tsars of the Romanov dynasty - Fyodor III, Ivan V, and Peter I), and Natalia Kirillova Naryshkina (Tsarina of Russia, second wife of Tsar Alexei I Romanov).