course, this is like for a creative person an opportunity to test fate, his famous letters of canni snitkaly describes the situation that i got so many florins, and i lost everything, this is an endless series, that is, contemporaries would have called fyodor mikhailovich a very toxic person, yes, because he caused a lot of trouble for his wife, yes, well, and the work of the player, yes, it is essentially autobiographical, there are very good types of players, the attitude to the game is shown, which is found in those who... visit the gambling hall, there is an active, objective, all writers and pushkin, and tolstoy, and dostoevsky tried to find some kind of system in the game, they tried, but they couldn't find it, because this system simply doesn't exist, you have to trust chance, well, and somehow not get excited, but it was very difficult to do, but we also have ivan andreevich krylov, who is also an absolutely wonderful player, the most famous, and just like... and gavriil romanovich derzhavin, he was not a very wealthy man in his youth and simply earned his living by playing cards,