Peter the Great (1986)

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7.0

Jan 15, 2026

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…