Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

a novel in verse

Eugene Onegin

The Queen of Spades

The Captain's Daughter (Hesperus Classics)

Ruslan and Ludmila

The Collected Stories

Russian Reader

Dubrovsky

Mozart and Salieri

Robert Powell-Jones

Bronze Horseman

The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories

Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, The Queen of Spades, The Captain's Daughter, Peter the Great's Blackamoor (Oxford World's Classics)

The History of Pugachev (Phoenix Press)

Phoenix

La fille du capitaine

Boris Godunov and other dramatic works

The Shot

Roger Clarke

Love Poems

Skazka O Rybake

The Queen of Spades (Russian: Pikovaya dama) is an acclaimed short story by Alexander Pushkin about human avariciousness. Pushkin wrote the story in autumn 1833 in Boldino and it was first published in literary magazine Biblioteka dlya chteniya in 1834. It was turned into the opera The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky.

The Queen of Spades Illustrated

Pushkin's story tells of the Russianized German card player, Hermann--an engineer in the army in Russia--who becomes obsessed with the secret of three consecutive winning cards after hearing a story about an old countess' winnings years prior. His obsession drives him to manipulate the countess' ward, Lizaveta Ivanovna, into letting him into their home.

Pushkin's story tells of the Russianized German card player, Hermann--an engineer in the army in Russia--who becomes obsessed with the secret of three consecutive winning cards after hearing a story about an...

The Queen of Spades (Annotated)

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

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