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1. the fascination of sacrifice by skeletondragon

   Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   02 Aug 2025

   Tags

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   • Vasily Borgov/Beth Harmon
   • Vasily Borgov/Vasily Borgov's Wife
   • Vasily Borgov
   • Beth Harmon
   • Vasily Borgov's Wife
   • basically it's beth/borgov from his wife's POV
   • and of course she realizes it before he does
   • this is half a beth/borgov fic and half a study of the relationship between borgov and his wife
   • Slow Burn
   • Pining
   • Angst
   • Consensual Infidelity

   Summary

   Yevgeniya Ilyinichna Borgova was many things - wife, mother, accomplished literary student, translator - but she was not a fool.

   After all, it would take a fool not to see that her husband, Vasily Vladimirovich Borgov, had fallen in love with the American chess champion Elizabeth Harmon.

   Series

   • Part 1 of the king and the two queens

   Language:

   English

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   15,367

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   5/9

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