What kind of masterpiece is an imperial envoy?

Drinking poison to quench thirst describes a remote city. When a group of officials, led by the mayor, heard that an imperial envoy was coming to inspect, they all panicked, and regarded a passing aristocratic son, Starkovs, as an "imperial envoy", greeting them in every way and bribing and wooing them desperately. The work exposes the ugliness and corruption of various bureaucrats under the czar's autocratic system, and reflects the essential characteristics of Russian bureaucrats, such as corruption, bribery, flattery and meanness. An Imperial Envoy describes a dude, Starkovs, who lost everything in a bet with others 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. Nikolai Nikolai Gogol 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. This is a comedy. It happened in a small city in Russia. The city became corrupt under the rule of a rude and corrupt mayor and a group of bureaucrats. 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 envoy to visit privately, everyone panicked and didn't know what to do. Suddenly, they heard that a man named Helie Starkovs lived in the only hotel in the city. They mistakenly thought that this extraordinary-looking man was an imperial envoy, but in fact he 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. Herzen spoke highly of The Imperial Envoy, a masterpiece that shocked the world, calling it "the most complete pathological anatomy course for Russian officials". Nie Mirovic? Dan Qin Ke said: "No matter how many times you have watched Imperial Envoy, even if you are prepared, you should still be deeply attracted by its ending, its amazing beauty, appeal, extraordinary and completely unexpected form and inspirational stage intention."