The setting of one of Dumas’s early novels, “The Fencing Master,” is Russia: it tells about the fate of the Frenchwoman Pauline G€bble, who became the wife of the Decembrist I. A. Annenkov, exiled to Siberia.
There’s no doubt that Dumas is a wonderful storyteller. Whatever he writes, we feel what his heroes live by, sense the era surrounding them, and catch the author’s imagination at work.