| Native Name: | Russian: Королева Марго |
| Genre: | historical drama |
| Based On: | La Reine Margot |
| Screenplay: | Marina Mareeva |
| Director: | Alexander Muratov |
| Composer: | Eugen Doga |
| Country: | Russia |
| Language: | Russian |
| Num Seasons: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 18 |
| Producer: | Sergey Zhigunov Elena Samagina |
| Cinematography: | Oleg Martynov |
| Editor: | Eleonora Praksina Valery Todorovsky Natalya Kucherenko |
| Runtime: | 566 min. |
| Network: | Russia 1 |
| Related: | Countess de Monsoreau |
Queen Margot (Russian: Королева Марго|Koroleva Margo) is a Russian television series directed by Alexander Muratov. A film adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas, filmed in 1994-1995.[1] [2] The film premiered on television in the fall of 1996 on the Russia 1.[3]
In order to cement another ephemeral peace between Catholics and Protestant Huguenots of France, on August 18, 1572, King Charles IX's sister Margaret was married to one of the Huguenot leaders, Henry de Bourbon, King of Navarre, her second cousin, the Prince of the Blood.
Her wedding, celebrated in Paris with great pomp, ended on St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. During a massacre, Margot accidentally saves a wounded Protestant nobleman and falls in love with him.