Alexander Pushkin (also spelt as Aleksandr Pushkin), was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. His fictional short story “The Queen of Spades” is about human avarice and contains some supernatural elements. He also went on to write “The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin” which contained five short 1. The Squire's Daughter (An Amateur Peasant Girl) 2. The Blizzard (The Snowstorm) 3. The Postmaster (The Stationmaster) 4. The Shot 5. The Undertaker (The Coffin-Maker) The tales themselves are not related to one another, except that they are all said in the introduction to be stories told by various people to a recently deceased fictitious landowner, Ivan Petrovich Belkin. This book contains the Queen of Spades and those five stories.
