Pushkin and the Ghost of the Queen of Spades

This mysteriously fascinating reading reveals one of the secrets of Pushkin, associated with the beauty-aristocrat, the granddaughter of Field Marshal M.I. Kutuzov, Darya Countess (Dolly) Fikelmon. She was one of the most outstanding women who knew Pushkin. In addition to the extraordinary beauty, contemporaries celebrated in it "otnaya mind", latitude of interest, rare education and truly European culture. Pushkin was a frequent guest in the Embassy of the mansion on the palace embankment at the feet of the beautiful mistress. In such familiar to him the walls he will lead his Germans in the peak lady "to find out the cherished three cards. Actually, in this house, where he was the poet of the ghost of the old Countess, and his brilliant mysterious story originated.
In front of the reader, the almost detective story of Pushkin"s meetings with his beloved - the wife of the Austrian Messenger in St. Petersburg Charles of Fikelmon was unfolded. Note that in this story there is no fiction: the basis of the Book of an outstanding writer-Pushkinist Nikolai Raevsky Lea detected by the Diary Dolly Fikelmon