Peter the Great
Official movie poster
Directed by	Vladimir Petrov
Written by	Vladimir Petrov Aleksey Tolstoy Nikolay Leshchenko
Starring	Nikolay Simonov Nikolai Cherkasov Alla Tarasova Mikhail Zharov Viktor Dobrovolsky
Cinematography	Vyacheslav Gordanov Vladimir Yakovlev
Edited by	N. Kerstens
Music by	Vladimir Shcherbachov
Production company	Lenfilm
Release date	1937/38
Running time	96 min./96 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Peter the Great (Russian: Пётр Первый, romanized: Pyotr pervyy) is a 1937-1938 Soviet two-part historical biographical film, shot on the Order of Lenin from Leningrad film studio Lenfilm director Vladimir Petrov on the eponymous play by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's devoted to the life and activity of the Russian Emperor Peter I.

Cast

• Nikolai Simonov as Tsar Pyotr I
• Mikhail Zharov as Alexander Danilovich Menshikov
• Nikolay Cherkasov as Prince Alexei
• Mikhail Tarkhanov as Field Marshal Boris Sheremetev
• Viktor Dobrovolsky as Yaguzhinsky, an officer / Fedka, a debtor
• Alla Tarasova as Catherine, a peasant girl
• Konstantin Gibshman as Buinosov, the boyar
• Nikolai Orlov as Yemov
• Fyodor Bogdanov as Foundry Owner
• Vladimir Gardin as Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy

Awards

• Prize at an exhibition in Paris (1937)
• Stalin Prize (1941) I Class – Mikhail Zharov, Vladimir Petrov, Nikolay Simonov