The masterpiece of the famous Russian satirist Nikolai Gogol.

An Imperial Envoy is the representative work of Russian satirist Nikolai Gogol, published in 1836. The story describes that Alestakov, a dude, lost all his money in a bet and was at a loss. He passed through a city in other provinces from Petersburg and was mistaken for an "imperial envoy", causing panic among local bureaucrats and making many jokes.

The work changed the situation that the Russian theater was full of farce with shallow ideas and vulgar techniques transplanted from France. Nikolai Nikolai Gogol, an imperial envoy, showed the ugly prototype of social dignitaries at that time with the mirror of comedy, thus exposing the dark, decadent and absurd reaction of serfdom Russian society.

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 got wind that the capital had sent an imperial emissary traveling incognito, everyone panicked and didn't know what to do. At this moment, they suddenly heard that a man named christa Cove lived in the only hotel in the city, so they mistakenly thought that this extraordinary-looking man was an imperial emissary who actually resigned and returned to China 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.