What is the style of Alexander Pushkin's writing in his short stories?

In his introduction to The Complete Prose Tales
of Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin, Gillon R. Aitkin makes a number of points
about the nature of Pushkin’s short fiction, including the
following:

• its focus on Russian concerns and
  Russian subject matters


• its debt to Russian
  folklore


• its “simplicity and precision” of
  phrasing


• its “ease and vitality” of
  phrasing


• its ability
  to

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bring at once to life a situation or a character
[through] the range and strength of [Pushkin’s]
imagination.

In introducing
his own translations of Pushkin’s complete fiction, Paul Debreckzeny comments on a
number of features of Pushkin’s short stories, including the following that appear in in
The Tales of
Belkin:

• relatively simple subject
  matter


• relatively simple
  narrators


• uneducated
  narrators


• sentimentalism
  (sometimes)


• romanticism
  (sometimes)


• parody
  (sometimes)


• satire
  (sometimes)


• comedy
  (sometimes)


• the absurd
  (sometimes)


• the macabre
  (sometimes)


• the grotesque
  (sometimes)


• symbolism
  (sometimes)

In commenting on the volume titled
A History of the Village of Goriukhino, Debreckzeny mentions a
number of specific traits of the stories in this collection, including  naïve comedy
that reveals dark truths about Russian village
life.

Debreckzeny’s remarks on “The Queen of Spades,” often
considered Pushkin’s best short story, mention the following traits of that
work:

• “detached
  narration”


• “an intricate system of
  images”


• “complex
  characters”


• “a system of symbols worthy of epic
  poetry”

As these remarks suggest, Pushkin’s
short fiction exhibits a good deal of variety in tone, phrasing, and subject matter. 
Easy generalizations about his short stories should probably be
avoided.