The Government Inspector

The comedy by N. V. Gogol "The Government Inspector" is one of the brightest examples of Russian satire.

According to the writer himself, in this comedy he "decided to gather all that is bad in Russia into one pile and laugh at it all at once".
The story, centered around the appearance of a false inspector in a provincial town "with a secret order", combines truth and grotesque and has not left the theatrical stage for nearly two centuries.
The characters of Gogol's personages are revealed with masterful precision in the illustrations of A. I. Konstantinovsky.