From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: Two stanzas, the first of twenty-eight lines, the second of eight, rhyming alternately throughout.
Translated from Conrad Ryleieff.
First appeared in Dumas' journal "Le Monte-Cristo," No. for February 3rd, 1859.
It is now found in the "Impressions de Voyage : En Russie," Chapter XXXII.
