The Queen of Spades is an 1834 novella with supernatural elements by Alexander Pushkin, about human avarice. Written in autumn 1833 in Boldino, it was first published in the literary magazine Biblioteka dlya chteniya in March 1834. The story served as basis for the operas The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, La dame de pique by Fromental Halévy and Pique Dame by Franz von Suppé, and numerous films. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)