queen of spades Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 3/27/2015
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

  • Cose to 

  • the city centre

  • subway station Piata Romana.

  • Icoanei Park

 

  • "The Queen of Spades" ( Pikovaya dama) is a short story with supernatural elements by Alexander Pushkin about human avarice. 
  • The story was the basis of the operas The Queen of Spades (1890) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, La dame de pique (1850) 
  • Plot summary
    Hermann, an ethnic German, is an officer of the engineers in the Imperial Russian Army. He constantly watches the other officers gamble, but never plays himself. One night, Tomsky tells a story about his grandmother, an elderly countess. Many years ago, inFrance, she lost a fortune at cards, and then won it back with the secret of the three winning cards, which she learned from the notorious Count of St. Germain. Hermann becomes obsessed with obtaining the secret.
     

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

look for the spade

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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