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Peter I: The Last Tsar and the First Emperor

Peter I: The Last Tsar and the First Emperor

20222.01h 52m

Overview

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.

Directed by Andrey Kravchuk
Written by Andrey Kravchuk, Andrey Rubanov, Anton Cherenkov
Produced by Ivan Golomovzyuk, Petr Shakhlevich, Lily Sherozia
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Top Cast

Konstantin Khabenskiy

Konstantin Khabenskiy

Narrator (voice)

Ivan Kolesnikov

Ivan Kolesnikov

Peter I

Aleksey Lukin

Aleksey Lukin

Young Peter I

Daniil Muravev-Izotov

Daniil Muravev-Izotov

Peter I (aged 10)

Maksim Ivanov-Marenin

Maksim Ivanov-Marenin

Young Alexander Menshikov

Igor Gordin

Igor Gordin

Alexander Menshikov

Wolfgang Cerny

Wolfgang Cerny

François Le Fort

Ksenia Utekhina

Ksenia Utekhina

Catherine I

Anastasiya Mishina

Anastasiya Mishina

Sophia Alekseyevna

Yuliya Bocharova

Yuliya Bocharova

Natalya Naryshkina

Themes & Keywords

emperorrussian historyrussian empirepeter the great

About Peter I: The Last Tsar and the First Emperor

Peter I: The Last Tsar and the First Emperor is a history, drama film released in 2022 exploring themes of emperor, russian history, russian empire, peter the great. Directed by Andrey Kravchuk, it stars Konstantin Khabenskiy, Ivan Kolesnikov, Aleksey Lukin. 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.

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