Marika Devic

2013. Moscow. In the basement of an old mansion, the remains of an unknown person have been found. To examine the find, police officer Anton Ermolaev and forensic expert Ekaterina Luzina arrive. They immediately determine that the skeleton belongs to a person who lived in the 19th century. Taking everything they found as evidence and making their way to the surface, they discover that they have traveled back in time and are now in 1879.

18th century, The Russian Empire. The series tells the life story of Darya Saltykova, who was called Saltychikha by serfs. The landowner brutally tortured about one and half hundreds peasants, for which "Russian Elizabeth Bathory" was imprisoned at underground prison, where she spent 33 years until her death. How a young girl who was brought up in a monastery turned into a monster?