Each card has cost me labour
And sweat!

It wasn't so easy - my eyes are
still dazed from putting those
damned spots on the backs.

But it's also as good as capital:
It can be left to one's children.

Look at this treasure of a deck -
a real pearl!

It even has its own name -
Adelaida Ivanovna.

So serve me, my love, as your sister did
And let me win eighty thousand roubles
As she did

- Then as soon as I return to my village
I'll put up a marble monument to you.

I'll order it in Moscow.

Nikolaj Gogol. "The Gamblers".