Peter the Great

Overview

Peter the Great is a 1986 NBC television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell as Russian emperor Peter the Great, and based on the biography by Robert K. Massie. It won three Primetime Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Miniseries.

Top cast

Maximilian Schell

Peter the Great

Vanessa Redgrave

Sophia

Omar Sharif

Prince Feodor Romodanovsky

Trevor Howard

Sir Isaac Newton

Laurence Olivier

King William III of Orange

Helmut Griem

Alexander Menshikov

Jan Niklas

Young Peter the Great

Elke Sommer

Charlotte

Renée Soutendijk

Anna Mons

Ursula Andress

Athalie

Mel Ferrer

Frederick

Hanna Schygulla

Catherine Skevronskaya

Mike Gwilym

Shafirov

Günther Maria Halmer

Count Tolstoy

Olegar Fedoro

Boyar Lopukhin

Jan Malmsjö

Patriarch

Lilli Palmer

Natalya

Geoffrey Whitehead

Prince Vasily Golitsyn

Jeremy Kemp

Col. Patrick Gordon

V

Vladimir Ilin

Earl Sheremetief

Seasons

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