Gogol. The Beginning

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.

Discover

Alexander Petrov

Gogol Nikolay Vasilievich

Oleg Menshikov

Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator

Yan Tsapnik

Bomgart - doctor

Taisiya Vilkova

Elizaveta Andreevna Danishevskaya - countess

Sergey Badyuk

Вакула (кузнец)

Artyom Tkachenko

Aleksey Danishevsky - Count, husband of Lisa

Evgeniy Stychkin

Binh - investigator

Anton Momot

Грицко

Evgeny Kapitonov

father Varfolomey

Pavel Derevyanko

Aleksander Pushkin

Valery Rybin

Black Horseman

Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov

Solopiy Cherevik

Ilya Borisov

Popovich

Art

Elena Zhukova

Production Design

Camera

Sergey Trofimov

Director of Photography

Evgeny Kordunsky

Additional Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Viktoriya Igumnova

Costume Design

Tamara Frid

Makeup Artist

Crew

Sergey Golovkin

Stunt Coordinator

Directing

Egor Baranov

Director

Galina Strizhevskaya

Assistant Director

Vera Kryukova

Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Olga Nikulina

Producer

Olga Kurenkova

Executive Producer

Darya Skugar

Producer

Alla Petelina

Casting Director

Ivan Golomovzyuk

Executive Producer

Sound

Denis Dubovik

Music Producer

Mikhail Alekseev

Sound Director

Nikita Ershov

Sound Director

Aleksandr Zhizhov

Sound Director

Writing

Nikolai Gogol

Short Story

Tikhon Kornev

Screenplay

Kim Belov

Screenplay

Alexey Chupov

Screenplay

Natalya Merkulova

Screenplay