The Fencing Teacher

One of the most thrilling novels by the great Dumas. A novel in which he deviates from his usual free treatment of historical facts — and accurately, masterfully describes the Decembrist uprising in Russia and its brutal suppression, which turned into a tragedy for the noble intelligentsia. Against the backdrop of this tragedy unfolds the love story of Decembrist Ivan Alexandrovich Annenkov and young French milliner Polina Göbel, who became the prototypes for the heroes of Dumas's novel — Count Alexei Annenkov and Louise Dupuy, who followed her beloved to the hell of Siberian exile. A story seen through the eyes of an impartial observer — a wise, experienced French fencing teacher...