55 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestThe origin of Lisa's tragic fate is revealed. Guro confronts her for the sake of his organization, seeking the knowledge required to bring forth immortality.
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.
Production
Dikanka village built with obsessive folk-horror detail
Costume
1830s bureaucratic drab meets nightmare fairy-tale garb
Score
Discordant strings that mimic Gogol's unraveling mind
Creators
Aleksandr Tsekalo, Aleksey Karaulov, Tikhon Kornev
Yuliya Frants
Oksana
Taisiya Vilkova
Elizaveta Andreevna Danishevskaya - Countess
Artyom Tkachenko
Алексей Данишевский, граф, супруг Лизы
Evgeniy Stychkin
Binh - investigator
Oleg Menshikov
Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
Yevgeni Syty
Yakim
Valeriya Lakhina
Оксана
Alexander Petrov
Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol
Yan Tsapnik
Бомгарт, врач
Sergey Badyuk
Вакула, кузнец
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series weaponizes Gogol's actual biography—his self-destructive perfectionism, his Ukrainian heritage, his fear of madness—turning the author into his own gothic protagonist.
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