Gogol. The Beginning

Cossacks, witches, mermaids, drowned women and other inhabitants of Dikanka come face to face with their creator Nikolai Gogol, a young scribe from St. Petersburg who suffers from mysterious seizures and can communicate with characters from the other world. Together with his boss, the brilliant Moscow investigator Yakov Guro, the aspiring writer comes to Poltava region to investigate the mysterious murders of girls. Here he meets his love, which is destined to play a fatal role in his fate. But will the young writer have the spirit to resist the unimaginable? After all, according to rumors that are actively spread by frightened local residents, there is none other than the Devil himself in the guise of a black horseman behind the crimes.