in 1612, moscow print yard was destroyed by fire, but soon it would be rebuilt. in 1620, they erected a two-story stone chamber for the print yard, moving seven typesetters and eighty employees from the kremlin to the new premises. in 1625, they built several underground storage rooms and tunnels leading to the kremlin. the fire of 1634 destroyed all of the buildings belonging to the print yard. in 1642–1643, they built several new stone chambers for the publishing house under the supervision of an apprentice from stoneworks prikaz named t.shaturin. in 1644, an apprentice i.neverov and a foreigner named christopher erected gothic stone gates with towers, which divided the chambers of the print yard in two. these buildings housed the bookprinting prikaz and proofreading chamber. in 1679, they dismantled the so-called old "big chamber" building in the print yard, which was adjacent to the wall of kitai-gorod. stonemasons s.dmitriyev and i.artemyev supervised the erection of a new building over the old foundation, which would later be painted by a court icon painter l.ivanov and house the proofreading chamber and a library.