If you have not yet read The Queen of Spades, a short story, read it before this commentary ruins its suspense. The author, Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), an African-Russian poet and writer, is the founding father of Russian literature, inspiring Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and many others. Putin, Russia’s president, is a Pushkin fan, as More

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