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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.
- ^ Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich Gippius, Robert A. Maguire Gogol 1981 p.90 "In The Gamblers Gogol made even greater use of traditional materials and departed even further from them. It has not been precisely determined just when this play was written. There are some grounds for dating it as 1840: after returning ..."