From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: A six-line stanza, rhyming a, a, b, c, c, b.
Printed in the "Impressions de Voyage : En Russie," Chapter LXX. Reprinted in "Le Monte-Cristo," No. for May 16th, 1862. Glinel reprints these in his "Alexandre Dumas et Son Œuvre," page 452.