There he meets three old musketeers, members of the glorious King's Guard, but actually realizes that they are not the great fighters who he thinks they are.

While joining the musketeers he is faced with the hidden plots of Cardinal Richelieu, his spy Milady de Winter and a possible war against England.

In 1625 France, a poor young nobleman named d'Artagnan leaves his parents in Gascony and travels to Paris to join the Musketeers of the Guard.

The older man's companions beat d'Artagnan unconscious with a cooking pot and a metal tong that breaks his sword.

She works for the Queen Consort of France, Anne of Austria, who is secretly conducting an affair with the Duke of Buckingham.

Before their arrival, d'Artagnan is compelled to assault and nearly kill the Comte de Wardes, who is a friend of the Cardinal, a cousin of Rochefort, and Milady's lover.

Although two of the diamond studs have been stolen by Milady, the Duke of Buckingham is able to provide replacements while delaying the thief's return to Paris.

Arriving for one of their assignations, he notices signs of a struggle and discovers that Rochefort and M. Bonacieux, acting under the orders of the Cardinal, have assaulted and imprisoned her.

D'Artagnan meets Milady de Winter officially, and recognizes her as one of the Cardinal's agents from Meung, but this does not deter him.

In an inn, the musketeers overhear the Cardinal asking Milady to murder the Duke of Buckingham, a supporter of the Protestant rebels at La Rochelle who has sent troops to assist them.

The next morning, Athos bets that he, d'Artagnan, Porthos, and Aramis, and their servants can hold the recaptured St. Gervais bastion against the rebels for an hour.

Secretly glad to be rid of the treacherous Milady, the Cardinal destroys the letter and writes a new order, giving the bearer a promotion to lieutenant in de Treville's company of musketeers, leaving the name blank.

According to director Sergey Zhigunov,[7] "I tried to collect an ensemble of artists of high level (I do not have time and effort to educate people on the site), known but which are old-old in the audience.

At one point, there were reference to the previous Soviet-musical telefilm; with Mikhail Boyarsky cast as the role of D'Artagnan, a father, but according to Zhigunov, "then we have decided that it is wrong – mix so that old movie that still viewers are watching with pleasure, and our, new.

In his words: "I am very respectful attitude to Dumas, his books live hundreds of years, so do not allow yourself to take liberties with the plot.

I did not touch him, but strongly worked on dialogue, painted a more detailed story lines, characters endowed with new features.

Before that, Zhigunov produced adaptations of two other Dumas novels: Queen Margot (1997) and The Countess de Monsoreau (1997).

The Siege of La Rochelle was shot on the Gulf of Finland[12] Vyborg Vedomosti report Archived December 21, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.

[13] All of the costumes for the main characters were sewn to order from expensive fabrics, hand lace and semiprecious stones.