The novel “The Serapion Brothers” by the famous German romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776–1822) is a cycle of narratives united by the framing story of young writers - the Serapion brothers. Incredible events, vampires, necromancers, mysterious beauties come to life on the pages of a book that has not been completely published in Russian translation for more than 70 years.

“...One evening something happened in the family of Colonel P***, the consequence of which was such a disorder in the health of three people that one of them died, the other went crazy, and if we allow the derivation of the causes of one from the other, then, perhaps, the death of the colonel himself can be attributed to the same incident...”