Peter the Great

7.9(7)19861 Season4 Episodes~93m/epEnded

War & PoliticsDrama

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.

Network

NBC

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

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

2mo ago

7.0

This four-part miniseries boasted quite a stellar cast as it explored the life and times of Czar Peter the Great. Throughout his childhood his mother Natalya (Lilli Palmer) and Prince Feodor (Omar Sharif) had to struggle to keep him safe from the conspiratorial aspirations of his sister “Sophia” (Vanessa Redgrave) who controlled the dreaded Strelsky and acted with her lover Golitsyn (Geoffrey Whit...