Plot
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.
Cast
as Peter the Great
as Sophia
as Prince Feodor Romodanovsky
as Sir Isaac Newton
as King William III of Orange
as Alexander Menshikov
as Young Peter the Great
as Charlotte
as Anna Mons
as Athalie
Network
Status
Ended
First Aired Date
February 2, 1986
Last Aired Date
February 5, 1986
Production Companies
NBC Productions
Sovinfilm
Type
Scripted
Number of Season
1
Number of Episodes
4
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Reviews
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 Whi…