The Queen of Spades and Selected Works

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) ranks as one of Russia's greatest writers. He published his first poem when he was fifteen, and in 1820 his first long poem-Ruslan and Lyudmila-made him famous. His work, including the short story 'The Queen of Spades', the novel-in-verse Yevgeny Onegin and the long poem 'The Bronze Horseman', has secured his place as one of the greatest writers ever to have lived. He...