In order to strengthen the dynasty, Elizabeth decides to arrange the marriage of her good-for-nothing nephew, offering him one of the German princesses as a bride, Sophie Friederike Auguste, who by virtue of her young age is affectionately called "Fiquet".

Friends should hand over a personal letter to Prince Anhalt-Zerbst, and then deliver "Fiquet" and her mother incognito to St. Petersburg.

True friends Gardes-Marines are together again, and they are bringing a precious cargo with them to the distant snow-covered Russia: the future wife of the heir to the throne and her mother.

Using his skill of a clever Don Juan, de Brillieu should become the lover and confidant of Fiquet's mother - the Duchess Johanna, a lustful and extravagant woman, up to her neck in debt.

The filming process started in 1986, but after about a month and a half stopped due to the director's leg trauma she got when riding a horse.