 The fire began on 24 June, several months after Ivan IV, better known as "Ivan the Terrible," was officially crowned as first Tsar of Russia.The fire displaced about 80,000 people and killed about 2,700 to 3,700 (not including children), and led to widespread poverty among the survivors.Metropolitan Makarius was apparently injured in the fire when the Cathedral of the Dormition in the Kremlin was threatened by the flames and the metropolitan was taken out through a breach in the Kremlin walls and let down by rope into the Moscow River.