D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers

D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (Д'Артаньян и три мушкетёра) is a three-part Soviet television miniseries musical, first aired in 1978. It is based on the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père. State motto (Russian): Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Translated: Workers of the world, unite!) Capital Moscow Official language None; Russian (de facto) Government Federation of Socialist republics/ Communist state Area  - Total  - % water Largest on the planet 22,402,200 km² ?% Population  - Total  - Density 3rd before collapse 293,047,571 (July... A miniseries, in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... DArtagnan and the Musketeers The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802 – December 5, 1870), is best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him the most widely read French author in the world. ...

The series starred Mikhail Boyarsky as d'Artagnan, Veniamin Smekhov as Athos, Igor Starygin as Aramis and Valentin Smirnitsky as Porthos. The film, and its numerous songs became extremely popular in the Soviet Union throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s. Two sequels were made: Musketeers Twenty Years After (1992) and The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After (1993). Cover of Boyarskys CD Grand Collection Mikhail Boyarsky (Михаил Боярский; born December 26, 1949 in Leningrad, currently Saint Petersburg) is a Russian actor and singer, currently living in the city of Saint Petersburg. ... Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte dArtagnan (c. ... Veniamin Smekhov (Вениамин Смехов) is a russian actor, born in 1940. ... Athos is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... Aramis is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas. ... Porthos is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas. ...

External links

• D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers at the Internet Movie Database