From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: Eleven regular tour-line stanzas, rhyming alternately.
Translated from Lermontoff.
First appeared in Dumas' journal "Le Caucase," No. for May 4th, ]859, Chapter XXXIX.
It is now included in Chapter XL. of the "Impressions de Voyage : Le Caucase." M. Glinel possessed the autograph MS. of this, obtained from the firm of Voisin, December 15th, 1887.
