What kind of works does the Imperial Envoy belong to and what are its main contents?

An Imperial Envoy is the representative work of Russian satirist Nikolai Gogol, who used comedy genre to reflect the ugly face of the aristocrats at that time and exposed the darkness and decay of German society. Let's take a look at the main content of this comedy today.

The story mainly takes place in a small city in Russia, which is ruled by a mob. The mayor is rude and greedy, and officials are gangsters, but they have become official positions. Under the rule of this group of people, the city became ruined. When this group of corrupt officials heard that an imperial envoy traveling incognito was coming to their city, everyone was in a hurry. I don't know what to do. At this moment, I suddenly heard that a man named Helie Starkovs was in a hotel, so they took this seemingly alien person as an imperial envoy. The corrupt mayor immediately held a grand banquet at home to welcome the imperial envoy.

In addition, under the flattery of the mayor and some officials, he constantly wanted to bribe the imperial envoy. An imperial envoy had evil thoughts in his heart and proposed to the mayor's daughter. The mayor thought that if he got involved with him, he would be promoted and made a fortune in a big city, so that no one would stop him, so the mayor happily agreed to this marriage. But the young man ran away in a hurry for fear of his identity being exposed.

When the mayor's residence was busy, the postmaster came in with a letter in his hand. This letter was written by the young man to the mayor. In the letter, he laughed at these idiots for mistaking him for a young imperial envoy and abused every official. When the mayor and officials were unable to deal with this matter, the real imperial envoy came. This story is mainly to highlight the shallow and vulgar thoughts of Russian society at that time.

The above story only represents my personal opinion. Please forgive me if there is any mistake.