"Fencing Teacher" is one of the first novels by Alexander Dumas, telling about the more than one and a half year journey of the French fencing teacher in Russia. In Russia, for a long time, the book "Fencing Teacher" was banned for publication. And all because of the Decembrist uprising described in it. They say that the queen herself secretly read this novel, which incurred the wrath of the crowned spouse. It is good that now the bans have been lifted and we can fully enjoy this magnificent book, which describes Russia to us at the end of the nineteenth century through the eyes of a foreign traveler.