Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin

“Five short tales, presented by a 'publisher' as the work of a modest country squire, the late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, who heard them from various people. A retired officer waits six years to take the pistol shot owed him in a duel; an elopement in a blizzard ends in a wedding with the wrong man; a gloomy Moscow undertaker invites his dead clients to a housewarming; a stationmaster loses his only daughter to a passing hussar; and a squire's daughter dresses as a peasant girl to meet the son of her father's enemy.”