: Hermann ignores the marriage condition and rushes to a gambling house. Night 1 : He bets on the three and wins. Night 2 : He bets on the seven and wins.

The tale follows , an army engineer of German descent who is cautious and frugal. Though he loves gambling, he refuses to play, fearing he might lose his small fortune.

Hermann loses everything and descends into madness, spending his remaining days in an asylum repeating the numbers "three, seven, ace... three, seven, queen!".

Everything changes when he hears a legend about an old who possesses a supernatural secret: a sequence of three cards— three, seven, and ace —that never fail to win at faro.

: He confronts the Countess in her bedroom, pleading for the secret. When she remains silent, he threatens her with a pistol; the terrified old woman dies of a heart attack on the spot.

The search for "pikovaia dama mp3 pushkin skachat" translates to referring to Alexander Pushkin's 1834 masterpiece of gothic horror and obsession. The Story of The Queen of Spades