Peter the Great

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.

War & Politics Drama

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)

Vladimir Ilin

(Earl Sheremetief)

Boris Plotnikov

(Alexis)

Vsevolod Larionov

(Prince Sukhorukov)

Algis Arlauskas

(Father Theodosius)

Walter Buschhoff

(Silvestre Mons)

Christoph Eichhorn

(Karl XII, King of Sweden)

Lyubov Germanova

(Afrosina)

Burkhard Heyl

(Count Piper)

Natalya Andreychenko

(Eudoxia)

Graham McGrath

(10 Year Old Peter)

Tolly Thwaites

(Boy Alexis)

Vera Kharybina

Anton Ragulin

Cameron Austin Schiller

(Boy in Castle)

Nikolay Lazarev

(Ivan)

Ulli Philipp

(Louise)

Denis DeMarne

(Old Peter the Great)

Philip Bowen

Carl Duering

Michael MacKenzie

George Murcell

Boris Shcherbakov

Heinz Weiss

(Austrian Doctor)

Ann Zacharias

Dmitriy Chernigovskiy

(Michael Menshikov)

Ivan Vlasov