Pushkin has loomed larger in my reading experience, because he has been been a huge influence on so many of the Russian writers I love. I have not yet read Eugene Onegin, and I plan to do so. While I loved the writing on a sentence-to-sentence level, and the world-building, I felt structurally many of these stories were almost eye-rolling, O Henry-style. The last story in this book, the unfinished "The Negro of Peter the Great" was the most interesting, with the titular The Captain's Daughter coming in second. The stories in between were mostly just readable but strange, plot-twisty one-offs. Didn't even seem Pushkin was trying that hard. Yes, as I write this, that's what was bothering me: it was the feeling of an insanely talented writer not trying very hard.