Peter the Great

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Peter the Great

1986- 1986

1 Seasons

4 Episodes

8.0(6 votes)

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Drama

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.

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45 members

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Maximilian Schell

Peter the Great

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Vanessa Redgrave

Sophia

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Omar Sharif

Prince Feodor Romodanovsky

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Trevor Howard

Sir Isaac Newton

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Laurence Olivier

King William III of Orange

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Helmut Griem

Alexander Menshikov

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Jan Niklas

Young Peter the Great

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Elke Sommer

Charlotte

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Renée Soutendijk

Anna Mons

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Ursula Andress

Athalie

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Mel Ferrer

Frederick

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Hanna Schygulla

Catherine Skevronskaya

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Mike Gwilym

Shafirov

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Günther Maria Halmer

Count Tolstoy

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Olegar Fedoro

Boyar Lopukhin

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Jan Malmsjö

Patriarch

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Lilli Palmer

Natalya

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Geoffrey Whitehead

Prince Vasily Golitsyn

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Jeremy Kemp

Col. Patrick Gordon

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Владимир Ильин

Earl Sheremetief

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Борис Плотников

Alexis

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Всеволод Ларионов

Prince Sukhorukov

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Альгис Арлаускас

Father Theodosius

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Walter Buschhoff

Silvestre Mons

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Christoph Eichhorn

Karl XII, King of Sweden

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Любовь Германова

Afrosina

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Burkhard Heyl

Count Piper

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Наталья Андрейченко

Eudoxia

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Graham McGrath

10 Year Old Peter

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Tolly Thwaites

Boy Alexis

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Вера Харыбина

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Anton Ragulin

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Cameron Austin Schiller

Boy in Castle

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Nikolay Lazarev

Ivan

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Ulli Philipp

Louise

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Denis DeMarne

Old Peter the Great

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Philip Bowen

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Carl Duering

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Michael MacKenzie

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George Murcell

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Борис Щербаков

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Heinz Weiss

Austrian Doctor

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Ann Zacharias

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Dmitriy Chernigovskiy

Michael Menshikov

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Иван Власов

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