It opens with an epigraph announcing that the title object "indicates some 
It opens with an epigraph announcing that the title object "indicates some covert malice," according to a fortune-telling manual. In the opening section, one of the characters tells a story about how his grandmother was all the rage in Paris 60 years earlier, and claims she learned a valuable lesson from the Count de Saint-Germain, who pretended to be the Wandering Jew. In the conclusion, we learn that Tomsky is going to marry Princess Polina, while Hermann went insane and Lizaveta married the son of the Countess's former steward. The story centers on an alleged secret for predicting three cards in sequence. FTP, name this work by Alexander Pushkin, made into an opera by Tchaikovsky, named for a playing card.
It opens with an epigraph announcing that the title object "indicates some covert malice," according to a fortune-telling manual.
“The {Queen of Spades}”