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Peter the Great on NBC

1986, TV Show

Peter the Great

An Emmy-winning miniseries about Peter I, who vowed to drag Russia `kicking and screaming into the modern world.' Wonderfully cast and visually stunning, the $26 million epic (dubbed `Tsar Wars' during its turbulent production) is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography `Peter the Great: His Life and World' by Robert K. Massie, and follows the ruler as he becomes fascinated with Western ways---and with a Dutch innkeeper's daughter.

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Premiered: February 02, 1986, on NBC

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Premise: An Emmy-winning miniseries about Peter I, who vowed to drag Russia `kicking and screaming into the modern world.' Wonderfully cast and visually stunning, the $26 million epic (dubbed `Tsar Wars' during its turbulent production) is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography `Peter the Great: His Life and World' by Robert K. Massie, and follows the ruler as he becomes fascinated with Western ways---and with a Dutch innkeeper's daughter.

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