The Fencing Teacher

One of the most exciting novels by the great Dumas. A novel in which he deviates from his usual free handling 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 the Decembrist Ivan Alexandrovich Annenkov and the young French modiste Pauline Göbl, who became prototypes for the characters of Dumas' novel — Count Alexei Annenkov and Louise Dupuy, who followed her beloved into the hell of Siberian exile. A story seen through the eyes of an outside observer - a wise, experienced French fencing teacher...