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.

Mr. Dapsul von Zabeltau is rich in nothing but sublime knowledge about occult subjects, His daughter, Fraulein Annchen, manages his household with some success. The housewife's special concern is the vegetable garden. One summer, a girl digs up a carrot in the garden, wearing a beautiful gold ring with bright topaz...