The tales themselves are not related to one another, except that they are all said in the introduction to be stories told by various people to a recently deceased landowner, Ivan Petrovich Belkin.
Same priče nisu međusobno povezane, osim što se u uvodu spominje da su to priče koje su razna lica ispripovijedala nedavno preminulom zemljovlasniku Ivanu Petroviču Belkinu.