About the book: year / To answer the riddles of "Belkin's Stories", let's ask ourselves: Why did Pushkin make the non-existent "writer" Ivan Petrovich Belkin the author of the stories, and he himself went to anonymous? Why did Pushkin need an anonymous friend and neighbor I.P. Belkin, who sent the publisher (Pushkin) a biography of the “writer”? Why are there four storytellers (I.P. Belkin just wrote down these stories), but five stories? (** In fact, in Mr. Belkin’s manuscript there is an inscription above each story by the author’s hand: I heard from such and such a person (rank or rank and capital letters of the first and last name). We write it down for curious researchers: “The Caretaker” was told to him by the titular adviser A.G.N., “Shot” by Lieutenant Colonel I.L.P., “Undertaker” by clerk B.V., “Blizzard” and “Young Lady” by girl K.I.T.).For what purpose did the poet change the chronology narratives, moving “Shot” and “Blizzard” to the beginning of the stories, although chronologically they complete them? Why, of the five stories, only the events of “Blizzard” are tied to the real chronology: 1811-1812.?