Editing Peter the Great (section)

==In popular culture==
[[File:Peter the Great tomb.JPG|thumb|Tomb of Peter the Great in the [[Peter and Paul Fortress]], St Petersburg]][[File:Петр I при Красной горке Айвазовский.jpg|thumb|''Peter I at [[Krasnaya Gorka fort|Krasnaya Gorka]] Lighting a Fire on the Shore to Signal to his Sinking Ships''; the [[Imperial Russian Navy|Russian]] [[Baltic Fleet]] first went to sea in full force, – to help the Russian troops [[Siege of Viborg (1710)|besieging Viborg]], – the fleet got caught in a storm.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Aivazovsky |first=I.K. |title=Peter I at Krasnaya Gorka Lighting a Fire on the Shore to Signal to his Sinking Ships |url=https://rusmuseumvrm.ru/data/collections/painting/17_19/zh_5879/index.php?lang=en |access-date=7 January 2024 |website=The Virtual [[Russian Museum]]}}</ref> Painting by [[Ivan Aivazovsky]] (1846).]]

Peter has been featured in many histories, novels, plays, films, monuments and paintings.<ref>Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, ''The Image of Peter the Great in Russian History and Thought'' (1985).</ref><ref>Lindsey Hughes, "'What manner of man did we lose?': Death-bed images of Peter the Great". ''Russian History'' 35.1–2 (2008): 45–61.</ref> They include the poems ''[[The Bronze Horseman (poem)|The Bronze Horseman]]'', ''[[Poltava (poem)|Poltava]]'' and the unfinished novel ''[[The Moor of Peter the Great]]'', all by [[Alexander Pushkin]]. The former dealt with [[The Bronze Horseman]], an equestrian statue raised in Peter's honour. [[Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy]] wrote a biographical historical novel about him, named ''Peter I'', in the 1930s.
* The 1922 German silent film ''[[Peter the Great (1922 film)|Peter the Great]]'' directed by [[Dimitri Buchowetzki]] and starring [[Emil Jannings]] as Peter
* In 1929 [[Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy#Peter the Great|A.N. Tolstoy's play]] was true to the party line, depicting Peter as a tyrant who "suppressed everyone and everything as if he had been possessed by demons, sowed fear, and put both his son and his country on the rack."<ref name="Gorchakov">{{Cite book |last=Gorchakov |first=Nikolai A. |title=The Theatre in Soviet Russia |date=1957 |publisher=Oxford U.P. |location=London |pages=315–317}}</ref>
* The 1937–1938 Soviet film ''[[Peter the Great (1937 film)|Peter the Great]]''
* The 1976 film ''[[How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor]]'', starring [[Aleksey Petrenko]] as Peter, and [[Vladimir Vysotsky]] as [[Abram Petrovich Gannibal]], shows Peter's attempt to build the Baltic Fleet.
* Peter was played by [[Jan Niklas]] and [[Maximilian Schell]] in the 1986 [[NBC]] [[miniseries]] ''[[Peter the Great (TV series)|Peter the Great]]''.
* The 2007 film ''[[The Sovereign's Servant]]'' depicts the unsavoury brutal side of Peter during the campaign.
* A character based on Peter plays a major role in ''[[The Age of Unreason]]'', a series of four [[alternate history]] novels written by American science fiction and fantasy author [[Gregory Keyes]].
* Peter is one of many supporting characters in [[Neal Stephenson]]'s ''[[Baroque Cycle]]'' – mainly featuring in the third novel, ''The System of the World''.
* Peter was portrayed on [[BBC Radio 4]] by Isaac Rouse as a boy, Will Howard as a young adult and [[Elliot Cowan]] as an adult in the radio plays ''Peter the Great: The Gamblers''<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07w6b7t BBC Radio 4 – Drama, Tsar, Peter the Great: The Gamblers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160925150111/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07w6b7t |date=25 September 2016 }}. BBC. Retrieved 8 May 2020.</ref> and ''Peter the Great: The Queen of Spades'',<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07wndxx BBC Radio 4 – Drama, Tsar, Peter the Great: Queen of Spades] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160929205551/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07wndxx |date=29 September 2016 }}. BBC. Retrieved 8 May 2020.</ref> written by [[Mike Walker (radio dramatist)|Mike Walker]] and which were the last two plays in the first series of ''Tsar''. The plays were broadcast on 25 September and 2 October 2016.
* A verse in the "[[Godiva's Hymn|Engineers' Drinking Song]]" references Peter the Great:
<blockquote><poem>There was a man named Peter the Great who was a Russian Tzar;
When remodeling his the castle put the throne behind the bar;
He lined the walls with vodka, rum, and 40 kinds of beers;
And advanced the Russian culture by 120 years!</poem></blockquote>
* Peter was played by [[Jason Isaacs]] in the 2020 'antihistory' Hulu series [[The Great (TV series)|''The Great'']].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Great (2020) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2235759/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_15 |access-date=25 September 2022 |website=IMDB}}</ref>
* Peter is featured as the leader of the Russian civilization in the computer game ''Sid Meier's [[Civilization VI]]''.<ref>[https://gamerant.com/civilization-6-leader-civilization-breakdown-montezuma-shaka/ Civilization 6 Leader and Civilization Breakdown – Montezuma to Shaka] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220618133234/https://gamerant.com/civilization-6-leader-civilization-breakdown-montezuma-shaka/ |date=18 June 2022 }}. GameRant. Retrieved 15 December 2020.</ref>
* Peter was played by [[Ivan Kolesnikov]] in the 2022 Russian historical documentary film ''[[Peter I: The Last Tsar and the First Emperor]]''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=3 November 2022 |title=Последний царь: о чём забыли создатели документального фильма о Петре I |url=https://www.forbes.ru/forbeslife/480623-poslednij-car-o-cem-zabyli-sozdateli-dokumental-nogo-fil-ma-o-petre-i |access-date=16 January 2023 |website=Forbes.ru |language=ru}}</ref>