The Queen of Spades

"The Queen of Spades" is a secular story by the brilliant Russian poet, "the sun of Russian poetry," playwright and prose writer A. S. Pushkin (1799–1837). It plays on the author's favorite theme of the unpredictability of fate, fate, money and their power over man. "The Queen of Spades" is one of the first works in Russian that was successful in Europe. The plot of the work formed the basis of th...