Synopsis

How to take the throne when you are the fourteenth child in the family? How to win access to the sea when there is no professional army and navy in the country? How in a few decades to bring a country to the world leaders that no one had considered before? These and many other questions are answered by Andrey Kravchuk's documentary-art blockbuster about the formation and reign of Emperor Peter the Great, whose figure still excites the minds of people all over the world.