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Peter the Great

Season 1 Episode 2

Peter I, the Czar of Russia, is the subject of this biopic, which chronicles his life from childhood in 1682 to his military triumphs during the Great Northern War against Sweden in the 1700s.

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1

Aired: Feb 2, 1986

Episode 2

Aired: Feb 3, 1986

Episode 3

Aired: Feb 4, 1986

Episode 4

Aired: Feb 5, 1986

Main Cast

Maximilian SchellPeter the Great

Vanessa RedgraveSophia

Omar SharifPrince Feodor Romodanovsky

Trevor HowardSir Isaac Newton

Laurence OlivierKing William III of Orange

Helmut GriemAlexander Menshikov

Jan NiklasYoung Peter the Great

Elke SommerCharlotte

Renée SoutendijkAnna Mons

Ursula AndressAthalie

Mel FerrerFrederick

Hanna SchygullaCatherine Skevronskaya

Mike GwilymShafirov

Günther Maria HalmerCount Tolstoy

Olegar FedoroBoyar Lopukhin

Jan MalmsjöPatriarch

Lilli PalmerNatalya

Geoffrey WhiteheadPrince Vasily Golitsyn

Jeremy KempCol. Patrick Gordon

Vladimir IlinEarl Sheremetief

Boris PlotnikovAlexis

Vsevolod LarionovPrince Sukhorukov

Algis ArlauskasFather Theodosius

Walter BuschhoffSilvestre Mons

Christoph EichhornKarl XII, King of Sweden

Lyubov GermanovaAfrosina

Burkhard HeylCount Piper

Natalya AndreychenkoEudoxia

Graham McGrath10 Year Old Peter

Tolly Thwaites

Tolly ThwaitesBoy Alexis

Vera Kharybina

Anton Ragulin

Cameron Austin Schiller

Cameron Austin SchillerBoy in Castle

Nikolay Lazarev

Nikolay LazarevIvan

Ulli PhilippLouise

Denis DeMarneOld Peter the Great

Philip Bowen

Michael MacKenzie

Michael MacKenzie

George Murcell

Boris Shcherbakov

Heinz WeissAustrian Doctor

Dmitriy Chernigovskiy

Dmitriy ChernigovskiyMichael Menshikov

Creators

Edward AnhaltWriter

Info about Peter the Great

Network: NBC

Production Countries: United States, Soviet Union

Genres:Drama, War, History, Biography