GOGOL. THE BEGINNING
16th SEPTEMBER 1730
17th SEPTEMBER 1730
Plot: 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.
Directed by Egor Baranov
Writing Credits: Natalya Merkulova, Aleksey Chupov, Tikhon Kornev, Kim Belov
Cast: Oleg Menshikov, Alexander Petrov, Sergey Badyuk, Evgeniy Stychkin, Taisiya Vilkova, Artyom Tkachenko