The High Stakes of Identity: Gambling in the Life and Literature of Nineteenth-Century Russia

Abstract

Memoiristic Moorings of Gentry Gambling Mythologies Count Fedor Ivanovich Tolstoi (the American) and the Cardsharp as Provocatour Writers as Gamblers: Pushkin's Ironic Gambling Performances and His Relationship with I. E. Velikopol'skii, Author of A Satire on Gambiers This Dishonorable Acts of Lermontov's Masquerade Prince Shakhovskoi's Money-madness and the Rewriting of The Queen of Spades Beglchev's Kholmskii Family and the Didactic Portrayal of Gambling Addiction Afterword Social and Literary Disruptions of Gambling Mythologies and Dostoevskii's Critique of the Beau Joueur