The year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print runs just to burn them all. He is suffering from violent epileptic seizures and struggles to keep on working. Investigator Yakov Guro accidentally witnesses one such fit and realizes that Gogol's visions contain clues that could help solve actual crimes. Together, Gogol and Guro take on a particularly weird and baffling case that brings them to a small village of Dikanka, where everyone has a huge secret to hide.
as Gogol Nikolay Vasilievich
as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
as Bomgart - doctor
as Elizaveta Andreevna Danishevskaya - countess
as Oksana
as Вакула (кузнец)
as Aleksey Danishevsky - Count, husband of Lisa
as Binh - investigator
as Грицко
as midwife
as Yakim
as Tesak
as Vasilina
as Khristina
as father Varfolomey
as Aleksander Pushkin
as Black Horseman
as Solopiy Cherevik
as Popovich