Despite the fact that the action of the book by journalist, publicist and writer Vladimir Shak takes place in an ordinary, seemingly rural outback - somewhere along the way from Zaporozhye to Melitopol, its heroes are not even ordinary people. And the count’s family with a big name suddenly appears here, and the poet Alexander Pushkin, who is a relative of the count, declares himself, and the artist Karl Bryullov has the honor of presenting his muse... And Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol himself is carefully watching everything that happens.