concept
Shtoss
faro
also: штосс, faro
A fast, high-stakes 19th-century Russian card game of the banking-game family, close to faro, notorious for producing ruinous losses in a single sitting.
Reading notes
- The Retired Slave §6 faro
\emph{Shtoss} (штосс), a fast, high-stakes card game of the banking-game family, close to faro, popular in 19th-century Russian high society and notorious for ruinous losses (cf. Lermontov's unfinished novella \emph{Shtoss}).