The figure of Emperor Peter the Great, as well as the era of his formation and reign, still excites the minds of people all over the world. The creators answer the questions of how to take the throne when you are the fourteenth child in the family; how to win access to the sea when there is no professional army and navy in the country; how to bring a country that no one considered before into world leaders in a few decades, and many others.
Production
Lavish period detail that screams 'we had a budget.'
Acting
Three actors playing one Peter—ambitious casting choice.
Cinematography
Grandiose shots of St. Petersburg being born from swamp.
Director
Andrey Kravchuk
Konstantin Khabenskiy
Narrator (voice)
Ivan Kolesnikov
Peter I
Aleksey Lukin
Young Peter I
Daniil Muravev-Izotov
Peter I (aged 10)
Maksim Ivanov-Marenin
Young Alexander Menshikov
Igor Gordin
Alexander Menshikov
Wolfgang Cerny
François Le Fort
Ksenia Utekhina
Catherine I
Anastasiya Mishina
Sophia Alekseyevna
Yuliya Bocharova
Natalya Naryshkina
Roman Konoplyov
Ivan Alekseyevich
Aleksandr Bolshakov
Joachim
Vasily Michkov
Artamon Matveyev
Dmitriy Kondratyuk
Shut Turgenev
Ivan Dobronravov
Alexey
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Andrey Kravchuk previously helmed 'Admiral' and 'Viking'—dude has a type, and that type is 'grandiose Russian history with expensive costumes.'
Peter's obsession with shipbuilding wasn't just practical—he worked incognito in Dutch shipyards, essentially doing a tsar internship. The film's recreation of this period used surviving 17th-century blueprints from the Russian Navy archives.
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