The Fencing Teacher

One of the most captivating novels by the great Dumas. A novel in which he diverges from his usual free approach to 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 Paulina Göbel, who became the prototypes of the characters in 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…