An ambitious officer becomes obsessed with an old countess's secret of three winning cards, with fatal and maddening consequences. Pushkin's taut tale of greed and the supernatural is one of the most celebrated short stories in Russian literature.
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An ambitious officer becomes obsessed with an old countess's secret of three winning cards, with fatal and maddening consequences. Pushkin's taut tale of greed and the supernatural is one of the most celebrated short stories in Russian literature.