Russian writers about gambling

The Book Club of Book Club continues the new series of “Themes” with the second collection “Russian Writers about gambling”. In one way or another, the excitement was characteristic of man at all times. This topic has not been exhausted to this day - and the games have not changed too much: and now everyone with the same excitement plays cards, roulette, and Russian roulette, on jumps, on the run and make bets on sports. Unless the racing races are a thing of the past, and the game on the stock exchange has been the first place... So what is the nature of the excitement, if the end is still not only welfare, but also human life?

This question in the new collection is answered by A. Pushkin, M. Lermontov, L. Tolstoy, N. Gogol, F. Dostoevsky, A. Chekhov, L. Andreev, A. Green, A. Kuprin, A. Averchenko.