Back ملكة البستوني (أقصوصة) Arabic Дама Пика Bulgarian Piková dáma (novela) Czech Spar Dame Danish Pique Dame (Erzählung) German Ντάμα πίκα (Πούσκιν) Greek La dama de picas (cuento) Spanish بیبی پیک Persian La Dame de pique French Պիկովայա դամա (վիպակ) Armenian
The Queen of Spades (Russian: «Пиковая дама», romanized: Pikovaya dama) is a short story with supernatural elements by Alexander Pushkin, about human avarice. Written in autumn 1833 in Boldino,[1] it was first published in the literary magazine Biblioteka dlya chteniya in March 1834.[2]
The story served as basis for the operas The Queen of Spades (1890) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, La dame de pique (1850) by Fromental Halévy and Pique Dame (1864) by Franz von Suppé,[3] and numerous films.
- ^ Binyon, Pushkin: A Biography, p. 424.
- ^ Binyon, Pushkin: A Biography, p. 444.
- ^ The Operatic Pushkin.