Gogol. The Beginning

The Darkest Night Before Dawn

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.

Alexander Petrov

Gogol Nikolay Vasilievich

Oleg Menshikov

Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator

Yan Tsapnik

Bomgart - doctor

Taisiya Vilkova

Elizaveta Andreevna Danishevskaya - countess

Yuliya Dzutseva

Oksana

Sergey Badyuk

Вакула (кузнец)

Artyom Tkachenko

Aleksey Danishevsky - Count, husband of Lisa

Evgeniy Stychkin

Binh - investigator

Anton Momot

Грицко

Nadezhda Shumilova

midwife

Yevgeni Syty

Yakim

Artem Suchkov

Tesak

Marta Timofeeva

Vasilina

Svetlana Kireeva

Khristina

Evgeny Kapitonov

father Varfolomey

Pavel Derevyanko

Aleksander Pushkin

Valery Rybin

Black Horseman

Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov

Solopiy Cherevik