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.
Aleksander S. Pushkin (born 1799, Moscow, Russia - died 1837, St. Petersburg) is a Russian poet, novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer, often considered his country’s greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.
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