Peter the First

10 hrs. 39 min.

Audio Plays, Radio Productions & Literary Readings

Language Russian

Author Alexey Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Narrator theater actors

Description

“Peter the First” by Alexey Tolstoy is one of the best historical novels—perhaps the most famous example of this genre in Soviet literature. A strong and ruthless reformist power, the era of Peter’s transformations in Russia—the great and tragic.

At the center is the fate of the Russian people: their calling in the world and the formation of a national character, with its virtues and flaws. Alexey Tolstoy began writing the novel in 1929; the first two books were completed by 1943. Work on the third book began shortly before the author’s death. He managed to carry the novel’s events through to 1704.
Performers:
From the author—Nikolay Chindyaykin, Evgeniya Dobrovorskaya
Peter the First—Alexander Arsentyev
Alexander Menshikov—Dmitry Filimonov
Lefort—Vladislav Vetrov
Sofya Alekseyevna / Natalya Kirillovna / and others—Evgeniya Dobrovorskaya
in other roles—Vasilisa Sukhanova, Madlen Jabrayilova, Olga Litvinova, Mariya Berdinskikh, Darya Frolova, Olga Kuznetsova, Alexey Dubrovsky, Alexander Gruzdyev, Vladimir Levashev, Andrey Yaroslavtsev, Gleb Podgorodinsky, Andrey Danilyuk, Sergey Kolesnikov, Valery Storozhik, Dmitry Supinin, Oleg Forostenko, Alexander Andriyenko, Mikhail Danilyuk, Alexander Litovkin