•
Maximilian Schell as
Peter the Great •
Jan Niklas as
Peter the Great in early adulthood •
Vanessa Redgrave as
Tsarevna Sophia •
Omar Sharif as Prince
Feodor Romodanovsky •
Laurence Olivier as
William III and II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland •
Trevor Howard as Sir
Isaac Newton •
Ursula Andress as Athalie •
Olegar Fedoro as Boyar Lopukhin •
Natalya Andrejchenko as
Tsaritsa Eudoxia Lopukhina •
Helmut Griem as Captain
Alexander Menshikov •
Renée Soutendijk as
Anna Mons (Peter's Dutch mistress) •
Hanna Schygulla as
Catherine Skavronskaya (Peter's 2nd mistress and later on wife) •
Christoph Eichhorn as
Charles XII, King of Sweden •
Lilli Palmer as
Tsarina Natalya, mother of Peter the Great •
Mel Ferrer as
Frederick I, King in Prussia •
Elke Sommer as
Charlotte, Queen in Prussia •
Jan Malmsjö as
The Patriarch •
Boris Plotnikov as
Tsarevich Alexis •
Jeremy Kemp as General
Patrick Gordon •
Geoffrey Whitehead as
Prince Vasily Golitsyn •
Graham McGrath as young adult
Peter the Great • Günther Maria Halmer as
Tolstoi • Dennis DeMarne as the figure of Peter the Great at the narrating scenes of the later years •
Ann Zacharias as Daria Lund, the mistress of Captain
Alexander Menshikov •
Algis Arlauskas as Father Theodosius The series was released as a three-tape VHS box (set in 1992, then, in 1994, as a single, lengthy VHS tape). Aleksandr Karin, the main stuntman on the film died 13 March 2026, aged 73. ==Awards and nominations==