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Peter the Great

Peter the Great

7,9 /10 (9 Votes)
1986 EN 1 Seasons

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.

First air date

02/02/1986

Votes

9

Popularity

2.2

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Networks

NBC

Language

EN

Last air date

1986-02-05

Episodes

4

Episode runtime

93 min

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Peter the Great

4 episodes • 1986

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2026-01-15

⭐ 7

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 Whitehead) on behalf of his half-witted brother Ivan (Nikolai Lazarev). In the end, both boys accede to the throne but even then Peter has to keep his wits about him as plots abound. Luckily, he has befri…

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