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In one of the volumes devoted to his travels in Russia, Dumas related that the Czarina, wife of the Czar Nicholas, having procured a copy of "The Fencing Master," asked her friend the Princess Trubetski to read it to her. While thus engaged the door opened and the Czar appeared. The princess, who held the book, hastily hid it under the sofa cushions. The Czar approached, and standing before his confused Consort. "You were reading, Madam?" he said."Yes, Sire.""Do you wish me to tell you what you were reading?"The Czarina was silent."You were reading the romance of M. Dumas, 'The Fencing Master.'"How do you know that, Sire?""It is not difficult to guess, since it is the last book I have prohibited."In spite of, or rather by reason of this prohibition, "The Fencing Master" became very popular in Russia, so popular indeed that when in 1858, some eighteen years after its publication, Dumas visited the famous fair at Nijini Novgorod, handkerchiefs printed in colors with scenes from the book were offered for sale to its surprised author.
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First published January 1, 1840
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Alexandre Dumas
6,977 books12.3k followersThis note regards Alexandre Dumas, père, the father of Alexandre Dumas, fils (son). For the son, see Alexandre Dumas fils.
Alexandre Dumas père, born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was a towering figure of 19th-century French literature whose historical novels and adventure tales earned global renown. Best known for The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and other swashbuckling epics, Dumas crafted stories filled with daring heroes, dramatic twists, and vivid historical backdrops. His works, often serialized and immensely popular with the public, helped shape the modern adventure genre and remain enduring staples of world literature.
Dumas was the son of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a celebrated general in Revolutionary France and the highest-ranking man of African descent in a European army at the time. His father’s early death left the family in poverty, but Dumas’s upbringing was nonetheless marked by strong personal ambition and a deep admiration for his father’s achievements. He moved to Paris as a young man and began his literary career writing for the theatre, quickly rising to prominence in the Romantic movement with successful plays like Henri III et sa cour and Antony.
In the 1840s, Dumas turned increasingly toward prose fiction, particularly serialized novels, which reached vast audiences through French newspapers. His collaboration with Auguste Maquet, a skilled plotter and historian, proved fruitful. While Maquet drafted outlines and conducted research, Dumas infused the narratives with flair, dialogue, and color. The result was a string of literary triumphs, including The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, both published in 1844. These novels exemplified Dumas’s flair for suspenseful pacing, memorable characters, and grand themes of justice, loyalty, and revenge.
The D’Artagnan Romances—The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte of Bragelonne—cemented his fame. They follow the adventures of the titular Gascon hero and his comrades Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, blending historical fact and fiction into richly imagined narratives. The Count of Monte Cristo offered a darker, more introspective tale of betrayal and retribution, with intricate plotting and a deeply philosophical core.
Dumas was also active in journalism and theater. He founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris, which staged dramatizations of his own novels. A prolific and energetic writer, he is estimated to have written or co-written over 100,000 pages of fiction, plays, memoirs, travel books, and essays. He also had a strong interest in food and published a massive culinary encyclopedia, Le Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine, filled with recipes, anecdotes, and reflections on gastronomy.
Despite his enormous success, Dumas was frequently plagued by financial troubles. He led a lavish lifestyle, building the ornate Château de Monte-Cristo near Paris, employing large staffs, and supporting many friends and relatives. His generosity and appetite for life often outpaced his income, leading to mounting debts. Still, his creative drive rarely waned.
Dumas’s mixed-race background was a source of both pride and tension in his life. He was outspoken about his heritage and used his platform to address race and injustice. In his novel Georges, he explored issues of colonialism and identity through a Creole protagonist. Though he encountered racism, he refused to be silenced, famously replying to a racial insult by pointing to his ancestry and achievements with dignity and wit.
Later in life, Dumas continued writing and traveling, spending time in Belgium, Italy, and Russia. He supported nationalist causes, particularly Italian unification, and even founded a newspaper to advocate for Giuseppe Garibaldi. Though his popularity waned somewhat in his final years, his literary legacy grew steadily. He wrote in a style that was accessible, entertaining, and emotionally reso
Alexandre Dumas père, born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was a towering figure of 19th-century French literature whose historical novels and adventure tales earned global renown. Best known for The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and other swashbuckling epics, Dumas crafted stories filled with daring heroes, dramatic twists, and vivid historical backdrops. His works, often serialized and immensely popular with the public, helped shape the modern adventure genre and remain enduring staples of world literature.
Dumas was the son of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a celebrated general in Revolutionary France and the highest-ranking man of African descent in a European army at the time. His father’s early death left the family in poverty, but Dumas’s upbringing was nonetheless marked by strong personal ambition and a deep admiration for his father’s achievements. He moved to Paris as a young man and began his literary career writing for the theatre, quickly rising to prominence in the Romantic movement with successful plays like Henri III et sa cour and Antony.
In the 1840s, Dumas turned increasingly toward prose fiction, particularly serialized novels, which reached vast audiences through French newspapers. His collaboration with Auguste Maquet, a skilled plotter and historian, proved fruitful. While Maquet drafted outlines and conducted research, Dumas infused the narratives with flair, dialogue, and color. The result was a string of literary triumphs, including The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, both published in 1844. These novels exemplified Dumas’s flair for suspenseful pacing, memorable characters, and grand themes of justice, loyalty, and revenge.
The D’Artagnan Romances—The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte of Bragelonne—cemented his fame. They follow the adventures of the titular Gascon hero and his comrades Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, blending historical fact and fiction into richly imagined narratives. The Count of Monte Cristo offered a darker, more introspective tale of betrayal and retribution, with intricate plotting and a deeply philosophical core.
Dumas was also active in journalism and theater. He founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris, which staged dramatizations of his own novels. A prolific and energetic writer, he is estimated to have written or co-written over 100,000 pages of fiction, plays, memoirs, travel books, and essays. He also had a strong interest in food and published a massive culinary encyclopedia, Le Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine, filled with recipes, anecdotes, and reflections on gastronomy.
Despite his enormous success, Dumas was frequently plagued by financial troubles. He led a lavish lifestyle, building the ornate Château de Monte-Cristo near Paris, employing large staffs, and supporting many friends and relatives. His generosity and appetite for life often outpaced his income, leading to mounting debts. Still, his creative drive rarely waned.
Dumas’s mixed-race background was a source of both pride and tension in his life. He was outspoken about his heritage and used his platform to address race and injustice. In his novel Georges, he explored issues of colonialism and identity through a Creole protagonist. Though he encountered racism, he refused to be silenced, famously replying to a racial insult by pointing to his ancestry and achievements with dignity and wit.
Later in life, Dumas continued writing and traveling, spending time in Belgium, Italy, and Russia. He supported nationalist causes, particularly Italian unification, and even founded a newspaper to advocate for Giuseppe Garibaldi. Though his popularity waned somewhat in his final years, his literary legacy grew steadily. He wrote in a style that was accessible, entertaining, and emotionally reso
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December 27, 2020
I feel terrible rating this 1 star, considering this is Alexandre Dumas were talking about here.
This novel was such a drag of a read, though, where I can’t rate it as anything other then 1 star.
I DNF’d this ten times. Maybe more. I DNF’d after every chapter. It was just awful.
The story has no point to it, really. The characters feel like cut outs from a history textbook. This entire book feels like it should just be a textbook for someone interested in studying Czarist Russia.
In itself I don’t mind the setting, it’s fine but I’d be reading about the main character arriving and doing his thing, I’d be getting into it and then BAM: welcome to the excessively descriptive 50 pages long sidetrack which describes political and historical context with 0 relationship to the main storyline. And it doesn’t connect them either.
About 50 pages of the book at the end are manageable. The actual main story could’ve been good. But the rest just felt like a lesson in history, which I was not interested in.
I can’t even say that I would classify this as a Historical Fiction. More then half of the book is a non fiction textbook.
I’d strongly advise you to avoid this and move on to read something else from Dumas extensive catalogue of novels.
Unless, of course, you’re in a mood for a lesson in Russian history, then by all means, have at it.
Roman
This novel was such a drag of a read, though, where I can’t rate it as anything other then 1 star.
I DNF’d this ten times. Maybe more. I DNF’d after every chapter. It was just awful.
The story has no point to it, really. The characters feel like cut outs from a history textbook. This entire book feels like it should just be a textbook for someone interested in studying Czarist Russia.
In itself I don’t mind the setting, it’s fine but I’d be reading about the main character arriving and doing his thing, I’d be getting into it and then BAM: welcome to the excessively descriptive 50 pages long sidetrack which describes political and historical context with 0 relationship to the main storyline. And it doesn’t connect them either.
About 50 pages of the book at the end are manageable. The actual main story could’ve been good. But the rest just felt like a lesson in history, which I was not interested in.
I can’t even say that I would classify this as a Historical Fiction. More then half of the book is a non fiction textbook.
I’d strongly advise you to avoid this and move on to read something else from Dumas extensive catalogue of novels.
Unless, of course, you’re in a mood for a lesson in Russian history, then by all means, have at it.
Roman
May 8, 2022
დიუმა ყოველთვის (ნებისმიერ ასაკსა თუ პერიოდში) ახერხებს ჩვენს დაინტერესებას და ისე გვითრევს თავის სამყაროში, რომ მნიშვნელობას კარგავს ყველაფერი, მათ შორის ისიც, რეალურ ამბებს გვიამბობს, თუ მთლიანად გამონაგონს გვთავაზობს. არც ეს წიგნია გამონაკლისი. ფარიკაობის ოსტატის მოგზაურობა პეტერბურგში ზუსტად იმ გარდამავალ პერიოდში, როდესაც ალექსანდრე I ნიკოლოზ I-მა შეცვალა და რუსეთის მაშინდელი დედაქალაქი წყალდიდობაზე მეტად შეთქმულების ტალღამ მოიცვა, იმდენად საინტერესოა, რომ კითხვისას გვგონია, თითქოს საკუთარი თვალით ვხედავთ პეტრე I-ს მიერ აგებული ქალაქის ქუჩებს და თავად ვეხვევით სამეფო კარის ინტრიგებში.
April 11, 2020
6/10
This one is obvious result of Dumas' fascination of tsarits' Russia. He, who is well known for his engrossing adventure novels, created really pointless plot and blank character (Frenchman freshly arrived to Petersburg indenting to become there fencing teacher) just because to give readers tour-like description of Russia in second decade of 19th century.
There is so many talking about famous buildings, streets, parks, canals; stories about various people (multiple noblemen, few emperors and empresses, their's favorites and servants); even descriptions of weather. Yes, those anecdotes are memorable - but some are dull and supposed to be funny, but failed to. For example, main character was not forewarned that in Russia chimney-sweep will visit his house to do his work. It wasn't commond in France, so he thought that man who came to his house after dark is going to rob him, so he started to struggle him and almost stab with dagger. Ha, ha.
Eventually it's quite amusing fast read, even when humour fails, but it is quite hard to believe it's famous Dumas' work. There are many interesting facts, but you can't be so blind to not see that it's more like guidebook than proper novel.
This one is obvious result of Dumas' fascination of tsarits' Russia. He, who is well known for his engrossing adventure novels, created really pointless plot and blank character (Frenchman freshly arrived to Petersburg indenting to become there fencing teacher) just because to give readers tour-like description of Russia in second decade of 19th century.
There is so many talking about famous buildings, streets, parks, canals; stories about various people (multiple noblemen, few emperors and empresses, their's favorites and servants); even descriptions of weather. Yes, those anecdotes are memorable - but some are dull and supposed to be funny, but failed to. For example, main character was not forewarned that in Russia chimney-sweep will visit his house to do his work. It wasn't commond in France, so he thought that man who came to his house after dark is going to rob him, so he started to struggle him and almost stab with dagger. Ha, ha.
Eventually it's quite amusing fast read, even when humour fails, but it is quite hard to believe it's famous Dumas' work. There are many interesting facts, but you can't be so blind to not see that it's more like guidebook than proper novel.
August 9, 2016
I liked it a lot. This book is not as adventurous as others books of Dumas, but if you are interested in history, Russian culture and politics of that time (17-18-19 centuries) it is a good read. Very descriptive with a lot of historical facts of my favorite times of Russian History.
February 21, 2011
Most Dumas fans don't like this book as much as his others, but I loved it. It tells of a journey through Russia and has some of the most beautiful descriptive passages I've ever read.
February 20, 2025
Non un romanzo da 5 stelle ma il "dovere" mi impone di metterle se si tratta di AD.
March 21, 2019
Apart from quite vivid and fascinating descriptions of historical - and historic - events, there' s some economics for you. I've made up a list of sums of money paid by Russians on a number of occasions. In fact, 2 lists: one, what commoners paid and earned; two, what nobility paid and .. well, paid. All rates are for Saint-Petersburg (SP) if not stated otherwise. RUR = Russian ruble.
1) Common people
1 ride on a sled down an ice-hill (on a vendor's sled): 1 kopek (1/100 of a ruble)
1 bathing in a common bath: RUR 2.5
1 horse-cab for an entire day: RUR 5.0
1 round-the-clock police guard ("budochnik" - with a booth to hide from bad weather) salary: RUR 20/year
1 teacher if a foreigner (preferably French) - RUR 10 to 80/ day
1 hairdresser if foreign (preferably French) and in vogue: up t0 RUR 600/day
Tips paid to horse-cab drivers on a trip from SP to Moscow (about 20x50km laps by different drivers): 30-50 kopeks per lap (on average)
For comparison: 1 cow was RUR 25 at that time (1825), the same amount as a monthly rent of a small house in a far-off town. (The author rented a flat in SP, but he doesn't mention the rate; I imagine it was higher than in Siberia, but the supply in the capital city was quite diverse, so the range might be very wide).
2) Nobility.
1 night of a cards game: RUR 300,000 + 25,000 serf peasants (=slaves) lost/changed hands (in aggregate);
RUR 100,000 paid by Tsar Pavel to Gen. Kościuszko whom he released from prison;
RUR 30,000 annual income bequeathed by Count Annenkov to his lover (French hatter);
RUR 10,000 paid by Prince Potyomkin for a big dish of cherries from Ukraine that he gifted to Catherine the Great on a New Year's eve;
RUR 3,000 for a fruit dessert at a dinner party;
RUR 800 for 1 sterlet fish direct from the Volga;
RUR 2,000 to a courier for a SP-Moscow round trip (3 days);
RUR 300 to a gipsy girl for a song )).
Decembrists (officers exiled to Siberia for their participation in the December 1825 uprising against the Tsar) asked their families to send them RUR 360-500 per year to ensure modest but respectable living conditions (food and lodgings) in a small town in Siberia.
1) Common people
1 ride on a sled down an ice-hill (on a vendor's sled): 1 kopek (1/100 of a ruble)
1 bathing in a common bath: RUR 2.5
1 horse-cab for an entire day: RUR 5.0
1 round-the-clock police guard ("budochnik" - with a booth to hide from bad weather) salary: RUR 20/year
1 teacher if a foreigner (preferably French) - RUR 10 to 80/ day
1 hairdresser if foreign (preferably French) and in vogue: up t0 RUR 600/day
Tips paid to horse-cab drivers on a trip from SP to Moscow (about 20x50km laps by different drivers): 30-50 kopeks per lap (on average)
For comparison: 1 cow was RUR 25 at that time (1825), the same amount as a monthly rent of a small house in a far-off town. (The author rented a flat in SP, but he doesn't mention the rate; I imagine it was higher than in Siberia, but the supply in the capital city was quite diverse, so the range might be very wide).
2) Nobility.
1 night of a cards game: RUR 300,000 + 25,000 serf peasants (=slaves) lost/changed hands (in aggregate);
RUR 100,000 paid by Tsar Pavel to Gen. Kościuszko whom he released from prison;
RUR 30,000 annual income bequeathed by Count Annenkov to his lover (French hatter);
RUR 10,000 paid by Prince Potyomkin for a big dish of cherries from Ukraine that he gifted to Catherine the Great on a New Year's eve;
RUR 3,000 for a fruit dessert at a dinner party;
RUR 800 for 1 sterlet fish direct from the Volga;
RUR 2,000 to a courier for a SP-Moscow round trip (3 days);
RUR 300 to a gipsy girl for a song )).
Decembrists (officers exiled to Siberia for their participation in the December 1825 uprising against the Tsar) asked their families to send them RUR 360-500 per year to ensure modest but respectable living conditions (food and lodgings) in a small town in Siberia.
December 25, 2016
Не открих типичните за Дюма приключения, но затова пък се насладих на прекрасните описания! Санкт Петербург и Москва оживяха пред мен! В този роман Дюма се изявява като отличен познавач на руската душа и движението на декабристите. И се зачудих дали пък не е истина онази конспиративна теория, която твърди, че Дюма всъщност е оцелелият в дуела и избягал във Франция Александър Пушкин :)))
December 28, 2023
For a book called the fencing master there was very little fencing and the master was almost never a part of the main action. There were a few scenes that were fantastic with witty banter and great descriptions. The rest was unnecessary and awful. (Especially the random scene which served literally no purpose other than to fetishize Romani people.)
Dumas couldn't decide if he wanted to write a road trip book where the main character followed Napoleon's path through Russia sharing "fun" little anecdotes of his time there or a Russian history book focusing on tsarist Russia. Instead we got a weird mix of both with random anecdotes about historical events that almost never had any bearing on the three main characters of the story. You can barely even call them main characters because we spent more time learning about Napoleon fighting in Russia and the assassination of Paul I than we ever spent with Alexis, Louise, and the Fencing Master.
Alexis is a true villain but doesn't seem to be portrayed that way despite harassing Louise, kidnapping her, and forcing her into realizing she's "in love with him" by telling her he'll kill himself if she isn't. Louise, who was a business woman (hat shop and possibly a sex worker if I read this correctly) loses everything because of this man and her choosing to join him in exile is depicted as being super romantic.
My least favorite book by Dumas by far.
Dumas couldn't decide if he wanted to write a road trip book where the main character followed Napoleon's path through Russia sharing "fun" little anecdotes of his time there or a Russian history book focusing on tsarist Russia. Instead we got a weird mix of both with random anecdotes about historical events that almost never had any bearing on the three main characters of the story. You can barely even call them main characters because we spent more time learning about Napoleon fighting in Russia and the assassination of Paul I than we ever spent with Alexis, Louise, and the Fencing Master.
Alexis is a true villain but doesn't seem to be portrayed that way despite harassing Louise, kidnapping her, and forcing her into realizing she's "in love with him" by telling her he'll kill himself if she isn't. Louise, who was a business woman (hat shop and possibly a sex worker if I read this correctly) loses everything because of this man and her choosing to join him in exile is depicted as being super romantic.
My least favorite book by Dumas by far.
September 5, 2019
An interesting book by Dumas. Set after the Napoleonic Wars of a French Fencing Master travelling and and through Russia. It catalogues his observations of Russians, Russian Life and the scenery.
On one side, this is a wonderful story by Dumas, it is a change of tact from his usual style focusing on the French Royal Family.
However, there were quite a few things that let this book down. Initially, the kindle version I read, the grammatical and sentence structure/ translation was terrible, making it hard to follow.
Having read many Russian Works, especially by Turgenev and Chekhov whose vivid descriptions of the Russian Countryside brings up many wild and vivid images in your mind. Here with Dumas, you don’t find this. It feels like he has never visited the sights he tried to describe.
After reading War and Peace, it was interesting to read in the introduction the French version of the Napoleonic Wars. Overall, it was very similar and reminiscent of Dumas’ “The Borgias”, quite a tough slog, historical work stating information after information with little story line.
It was great to read a different story by Dumas, but felt it didn’t fully come off.
On one side, this is a wonderful story by Dumas, it is a change of tact from his usual style focusing on the French Royal Family.
However, there were quite a few things that let this book down. Initially, the kindle version I read, the grammatical and sentence structure/ translation was terrible, making it hard to follow.
Having read many Russian Works, especially by Turgenev and Chekhov whose vivid descriptions of the Russian Countryside brings up many wild and vivid images in your mind. Here with Dumas, you don’t find this. It feels like he has never visited the sights he tried to describe.
After reading War and Peace, it was interesting to read in the introduction the French version of the Napoleonic Wars. Overall, it was very similar and reminiscent of Dumas’ “The Borgias”, quite a tough slog, historical work stating information after information with little story line.
It was great to read a different story by Dumas, but felt it didn’t fully come off.
August 14, 2025
This is a romanticized account of a French fencing master's view of the 1825 Decembrist revolt in Russia. Dumas frames it as a manuscript he got and for a while I wasn't sure why it had been called a novel; the early passages read like a travelogue and, in fact, have little appeal unless you think of them that way. There are all sorts of anecdotes meant for fellow Frenchmen explaining how fascinating Russia is, including the danger of frostbite or the trusting approachability of the czar. Dumas apparently liked the story of roasting bear paws with the skin still on and eating them so much that the narrator experiences this twice, each time for the first time.
It does, eventually, get around to romantic story that involves a trip to Siberia for the sake of love and does feel like a novel. Dumas is in his solidly mediocre mode here, which, of course, isn't bad but there are probably better choices for the average reader.
It does, eventually, get around to romantic story that involves a trip to Siberia for the sake of love and does feel like a novel. Dumas is in his solidly mediocre mode here, which, of course, isn't bad but there are probably better choices for the average reader.
September 14, 2024
Well, it depends on your general taste about reading and on your mood the way you "see" this novel.
This one is somehow different from the vast majority of his novels.
It tells us about a real event: a failed coup d'état led by liberal military and political dissidents against the Russian Empire. It took place in Saint Petersburg on 26 December 1825, following the sudden death of Emperor Alexander I.
Nothing new, regarding Dumas' stories, but the story is written considering the point of view of one of the author's best friends: Augustin Grisier, Dumas' fencing master. So, that makes the novel even more interesting...
This one is somehow different from the vast majority of his novels.
It tells us about a real event: a failed coup d'état led by liberal military and political dissidents against the Russian Empire. It took place in Saint Petersburg on 26 December 1825, following the sudden death of Emperor Alexander I.
Nothing new, regarding Dumas' stories, but the story is written considering the point of view of one of the author's best friends: Augustin Grisier, Dumas' fencing master. So, that makes the novel even more interesting...
July 11, 2024
Quite out of character for Dumas to recount the adventures of a fencing master in Russia during the Decembrist revolt. Absolutely nothing concerns the main character who mostly (except for the bear hunt and the trip to Siberia) remains a simple observer of unfolding events. It's not long (about 50k words in my version, give or take) but it's very cumbersome to read simply because of constant historical accuracy checks.
Interesting though (meta), Dumas got banned from going to Russia after this book, so I guess it shows someone unfavourably...? Turns out - not really. So weird.
Interesting though (meta), Dumas got banned from going to Russia after this book, so I guess it shows someone unfavourably...? Turns out - not really. So weird.
November 21, 2022
It was fine, but a little bit boring at some places. I wouldn't regret if I didn't read it at all.
November 28, 2024
A love letter to Russia from Dumas. The way he so gently and lovingly approached our customs, culture, tradition, history.. agh.. this is hands down my favourite book of 2024 ❤️
November 9, 2025
Seriously, I needed sth like this to just relax.
July 25, 2016
Дюма е разкошен писател, не знам дали друг може да ме очарова така. Книгата има всичко : любов, интрига, политически заговор, невероятни(почти пътеписни описания), изобилие от исторически факти. Стилът е толкова лек, толкова увлекателен, жив и наситен с усещания. Не съм попадала на друг автор, който така изразително да изгражда всеки образ и да създава едновременно достоверен исторически образ, преплетен в художествено повествование. Екатерина II Велика е била изключителна, с малкото препратки към управлението й, се запали любопитсвото ми и нямам търпение да порчета "Екатерина Велика" от Анри Троая и да науча още за нея. Павел I e неподходящ, не успява да се наложи и скоро е остранен със заговор.
July 31, 2014
An interesting contemporary travelogue of a French swordsman, who plies his trade in Russia in the period immediately following the death of Catherine the Great. It is interesting to read the subject's first person account of his experiences with the cities and culture of Russia, with an almost superior cultural attitude of a visiting colonial in a perceived cultural wilderness. Interesting; never more than informative and a bit dull.....
January 14, 2023
It's really interesting to get the detailed description of stunning St. Petersburg and it's life in that age. It's a shame though that there are historical inaccuracies. The love line made this story warm and pleasant
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July 23, 2016Звучи ми дразнещо наивно това повърхностно разказване за руските нрави, без капчица разбиране, без задълбочаване... Оставям книгата недовършена
May 18, 2018
Спасибо кафешке Круасан за предоставленную книжку!
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January 4, 2023Очень сентиментально:)
Very sentimental:)
Very sentimental:)
April 26, 2025
Мне очень понравилось. Хоть и местами занудно и тяжело было читать, но конца понравилась
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