Twenty years later. Volume 1. Dumas A.

1648. Five years passed since the death of the Red Sphinx - the formidable and wise cardinal Richelieu. During his lifetime, he was hated, but now his weakened France suddenly began to lack him much. Five years ago, the English revolution began, and, it seems, its tectonic shifts crawled through the La Cans. Cardinal Mazarini, a student and heir to the Richelieu case, on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The foundation of France has shaken! The enemy is everywhere - he is in huts and palaces! Are there really no people left around who can be trusted? Who will save the young king and his first minister?!

In the next volume of illustrated collected works of Alexander Dumas, the first part of the novel “Twenty years later” is included - a brilliant continuation of the saga about musketeers, whose friendship with every volume is subjected to more terrible trials.