How do Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin use multiple narrators?

In Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin (1831), Aleksandr Pushkin employs a sophisticated narrative structure to present five distinct stories. Each tale serves as a parody of a received plot, and the collection filters these narratives through the perspectives of several different narrators, collectors, or editors.1

By utilizing this layered approach, Pushkin distances himself from the stories, creating a complex framework that emphasizes the act of storytelling itself. This technique allows him to engage in the playful, experimental style characteristic of his prose, where the identity and reliability of the voices relaying the tales become as significant as the plots being parodied.1