'The Belkin Tales'' by A.s. Pushkin, a great Russian prose writer and poet. It's the beginning of Russian classic literature that is highly valued by both contemporaries and further writers. The series consists of five short stories: "the Shot", "the Blizzard", "the Undertaker", "the Station Master" and "the Squire's Daughter". Each story is written in different genres: "the Shot" . romanticism; "the Blizzard", "the Station Master" and "the Squire's Daughter" - sentimentalism; "the Undertaker" - gothic prose.