This mysteriously fascinating reading reveals one of Pushkin’s secrets associated with the beautiful aristocrat, granddaughter of Field Marshal M.I. Kutuzova, Countess Daria (Dolly) Fikelmon. She was one of the most extraordinary women Pushkin knew. In addition to her extraordinary beauty, her contemporaries noted her “excellent intelligence,” breadth of interests, rare education and truly European culture. Pushkin was a frequent guest at the embassy mansion on Palace Embankment at the feet of his beautiful hostess. He will bring his Hermann in the “Queen of Spades” to the walls so familiar to him to find out the treasured three cards. Actually, in this house, where the ghost of the old countess appeared to the poet, his brilliant mysterious story was born. An almost detective story of Pushkin’s meetings with his beloved, the wife of the Austrian envoy in St. Petersburg, Charles Fikelmont, unfolds before the reader’s eyes. Note that there is no fiction in this story: the book by the outstanding Pushkin writer Nikolai Raevsky is based on the diary of Dolly Fikelmon he discovered.