The character Lizaveta Ivanovna is the first to be deceived by Hermann in the short story “The Queen of Spades”. Lizaveta is a modest servant girl who works for the Queen of Spades. She waits hand and foot on her lady and receives little credit for her services. Like many women who lived during the seventeenth century, Lizaveta longs for love because she is so lonely and confined to her duties as a servant. One day while at a party with the Countess, Lizaveta notices a young Engineer officer standing outside of the window she is sitting next to. Being modest, Lizaveta puts her head down and ignores the young man. For many days after the party, the young man who is later to be revealed as Hermann, sends Lizaveta love letters filled with passion and the nicest words a lady in waiting would ever hear. After rejecting his letters, Lizaveta finally gives in and requests that he visits her quarters at the Queen’s Embassy. Hermann happily obliges because he finally gets a chance to execute his well thought out plan. Hermann is the type of man that does whatever he sees fit to get what he wants. When he over hears the Countess’ nephew Tomsky tell fellow card players about his grandmother’s three card trick, Hermann starts scheming and thinks of plans that would get him closer to the Queen herself. The first plan that the swindler comes up with is, to make the Queen fall in love with him. When Hermann thinks of how unattractive the Countess is, he devises another plan. Herman decides to swoon Lizavetta instead because not only is she closest to the Countess, but she is also young and gullible.