Queen Margot (Russian: Королева Марго, romanized: Koroleva Margo) is a Russian television series directed by Alexander Muratov.

A film adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas, filmed in 1994–1995,[3][4] it premiered on television in the fall of 1996 on Russia 1.

[2] 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.