'The Queen of Spades' is an opera in 3 acts the great Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) to a Russian libretto by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky. Photo Shows: a scene from Act one 'In the Summer Garden', Bolshoi Theatre. Eletsky - People's artist of the Armenian SSR, P. Lisitsian Countess - Merited Artist of the RSFSR, F. Petrova Tomsky - Merited Artist of the RSFSR, S. Ivanov Hermann - Merited Artist of the RSFSR, G. Bolshakov 1943 Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies