The Gamblers (Gogol)
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The Gamblers (Russian: «Игроки») is an 1840 play by Nikolai Gogol.[1] Dmitri Shostakovich tried to compose an opera of the same title based upon the play.
The play was first published in a publication called "The Works of Nikolai Gogol" in 1842. This publication was the fourth section of "Dramatic Excerpts and Other Scenes". The whole section was dated by Gogol himself from 1832 to 1837. The final version of "The Gamblers" was released in 1842 but the play had been in the works before then.
When he sent the play from Germany to Nikolai Prokopovich on August 29, 1842, Gogol wrote
"I am now sending the play "The Gamblers" which I forcefully collected. The draft was written so long ago and it was so incomprehensible that it was terrible to work with."
