From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: An eight-line stanza, rhyming alternately.
A translation from Poushkine.
First appeared in "Le Monte-Cristo," number for October 11th, 1858.
It is now to be found in the "Impressions de Voyage: En Russie," Chapter XX. M. Glinel points out one small variant between these two printings.