Top billed cast

1. 

   Maximilian Schell

   Peter the Great

2. 

   Vanessa Redgrave

   Sophia

3. 

   Omar Sharif

   Prince Feodor Romodanovsky

4. 

   Trevor Howard

   Sir Isaac Newton

5. 

   Laurence Olivier

   King William III of Orange

6. 

   Helmut Griem

   Alexander Menshikov

7. 

   Jan Niklas

   Young Peter the Great

8. 

   Elke Sommer

   Charlotte

9. 

   Renée Soutendijk

   Anna Mons

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Current Season

Season 1

1986 | 4 Episodes

Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2026-01-15

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 b...read the rest

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Status
Ended

Original Language
English

Original Name
Peter the Great

Keywords

• miniseries
• historical drama
• 17th century