After running out of money in a game of poker, Andrei Karpov from Murmansk offered his opponent his wife instead of cash to stay in the game.
When he lost the game, his opponent Sergey Brodov asked for his ‘claim’. The wife, Tatiana got so angry that she decided to divorce her husband and started her relationship with Brodov.
Sharing her experience, she said that she doesn’t regret leaving her first husband,
‘it was humiliating and I was utterly ashamed. But as soon as my ex-husband did that I knew I had to leave him. ‘Sergey was a very handsome, charming man and I am very happy with him, even if he did ‘win’ me in a poker game’,
Doesn’t it resound the famous episode of a Sanskrit epic of ancient India, Mahābhārata, where Pandavas lost their wife over a game of dice.
But here I guess, the fellow must have inspired by Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge. What you hafta say about that?
