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“Ace has won!" cried Hermann, showing his card.
"Your queen has lost," said Chekalinsky, politely.
Hermann started; instead of an ace, there lay before him the queen of spades! He could not believe his eyes, nor could he understand how he had made such a mistake.
At that moment it seemed to him that the queen of spades smiled ironically and winked her eye at him. He was struck by her remarkable resemblance…
"The old Countess!”

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Aleksandr Pushkin livre The Queen of Spades

he exclaimed, seized with terror.
VI.
The Queen of Spades (1833)

“Upon the brink of the wild stream
He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.”

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Aleksandr Pushkin The Bronze Horseman

Original: (ru) ‎На берегу пустынных волн Стоял он, дум великих полн.
Source: The Bronze Horseman (1833) trans. Charles Johnston.

“Like some magistrate grown gray in office,
Calmly he contemplates alike the just
And unjust, with indifference he notes
Evil and good, and knows not wrath nor pity.”

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Aleksandr Pushkin Boris Godunov

Boris Godunov (1825)