Modest Tchaikovsky was born on May 13, 1850 in Alapayevsk, Verkhotursky Uyezd, Perm Governorate, Russian Empire. He was a writer, known for The Queen of Spades: Bolshoi Opera (1983), Pique Dame (1992) and Pique Dame (2002). He died on January 15, 1916 in Moscow, Russian Empire.