Russian writer Nikolai Gogol's masterpiece.

The representative work of Russian writer Nikolai Gogol is An Imperial Envoy.

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The story takes place in a small city in Russia. Under the rule of a rude and corrupt mayor and a group of bureaucrats, the city has become corrupt. These bureaucrats are hooligans, but in fact they are idiots. When this group of corrupt officials heard that the capital had sent an imperial traveling incognito, they all panicked and didn't know what to do.

At this time, they suddenly heard that a man named Hurley Starkovs lived in the only hotel in the city, so they mistakenly thought that this extraordinary-looking man was an imperial envoy who actually resigned and returned home because of gambling and vagrancy. The mayor immediately held a grand welcome party at home and kept bribing the young man.

Under the flattery of the mayor and others, an evil idea rose in the young man's heart, so he proposed to the mayor's daughter. The mayor thought that as long as he climbed into the relationship with him, he could open the road to promotion and wealth in Beijing, so he readily agreed. However, for fear of being exposed, the young people fled in a hurry.

When the mayor's residence was in the climax of excitement, the postmaster came in with a letter in his hand. This letter was written by a young man to a friend in Petersburg. In the letter, he laughed at those idiots who regarded themselves as imperial envoys and gave every official an embarrassing nickname.

When the mayor and officials were speechless about this matter, the real imperial envoy came. When everyone froze, the curtain fell.

Source: Russian satirist Nikolai Gogol's Imperial Envoy.

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Creative background:

Nikolai Gogol began to write "An Imperial Envoy" from 1834. 1835 10, Nikolai Gogol wrote a letter to Pushkin, in which he expressed his desire to create a new comedy. In this letter, he would gather all the beautiful things he knew about Russia at that time and all the unjust things that appeared in the places and occasions where justice should be upheld most.

He asked his best friend to help him create comedy themes. Pushkin has been eager to help Nikolai Nikolai Gogol. He told Jay what he had seen and heard in the officialdom.

These spicy and interesting stories are the original materials of Nicholas Nikolai Gogol's famous satirical comedy "An Imperial Envoy". At the end of 1835, Nikolai Nikolai Gogol finished the first draft of the Imperial Envoy. On April 1836, the Imperial Envoy was staged at the Alexandra Grand Theatre in Bedburg. The final draft was completed on 1842.

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