Mikhail Edelshtein. Three centuries of St. Petersburg
Russian memoirs have preserved many testimonies about unfortunate people who lost to smithereens - they were ruined, fell into debt, and committed suicide as a result of their destructive attachment to cards and roulette. Reading another such pitiful story, you can’t help but think: who, exactly, got all this money in the end - after all, if there were losers, there certainly had to be winners?