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 the opera of the same name by P. Tchaikovsky. Both the opera and the story itself have been filmed more than once. The work is a mandatory part school curriculum. Pushkin is the author of such works as 'The History of the Village of Goryukhina', 'Ruslan and Lyudmila', 'Eugene Onegin', 'The Gypsies', 'Song about the Son of Senka Razin', 'The Mermaid', 'The Little House in Kolomna', 'Prisoner of the Caucasus' , 'Poltava', 'The guests were arriving at the dacha.' During his lifetime, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin earned himself a reputation as the greatest poet of Russia, whose work influenced the development of both Russian and world literature. The greatest merit of the brilliant poet is also that he became the creator of modern Russian literary language.