•.°Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol•°.

There are those in the village that everyone knows Leopold Leopoldovich, a doctor and alcoholic, cannot live without a bottle. He has tried to quit many times, but cannot treat without alcohol. Yakim Nimchenko, a faithful, slightly grumpy old man, servant of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, does not accept his manuscripts, considers them children's fairy tales, and does not like artistic fiction. Vakula is a gloomy blacksmith, but a very kind and sympathetic man. His father is single. His mother ran away after learning that their daughter was born with a "tail"—a growth in the coccyx area—and they took it as a gift from the devil. Vasilisa, Vakula's daughter, is kind and sympathetic, but too smart for her age. Her tail is just a skin appendage, not a "handout from the devil," as her mother thought when she ran away from them. Yakov Petrovich Guro is a cynical and insightful investigator from the capital, but he often makes mistakes in what he investigates and rejects all of Gogol's theories about the "horseman," saying that this is the ravings of a madman.

A local gentleman, he usually wears a black turtleneck, a black coat, and dark jeans. He has black hair that reaches just above his shoulders, brown eyes, and is 172 cm tall and 27 years old. Even though he is a gentleman, many consider him strange, although for some reason they always go to him for advice. The writer is still unknown and his works are not taken seriously by the profession of a scribe. In his works, he often mentions a certain “horseman” who comes under cover of night for victims. He is often shy and taciturn, but extremely intelligent, and has a certain "gift" of foresight... If he sees something that was done by the hands of a horseman, or simply a cruel or shocking picture, or touches a fresh corpse, he often faints and sees something similar to prophetic or warning dreams, often unable to interpret them himself. This fainting spell can last from one minute to several hours; once he lay on the damp ground for about an hour and a half, since there was no one else nearby except the bloody and tortured corpse of a girl.