N. Gogol's comedy "The Government Inspector

The time when N.V. Gogol lived and worked was marked by major social and historical events. The childhood years of the writer coincided with the defeat of Napoleon in the Patriotic War of 1812, Russia's entry into the broad international arena. The youthful years of Nikolai Gogol belong to the period when the Decembrists made plans for the revolutionary reorganization of Russia, and then openly opposed autocracy and serfdom. In the literary field, N.V. Gogol entered the time of cruel political reaction. His creative activity develops in the 30-40s

The years of the 19th century, when the ruling circles of Nicholas I sought to eradicate any free-thinking, social independence.
The appearance in 1836 of the comedy The Inspector General acquired social importance not only because the author criticized and ridiculed the vices and shortcomings of Tsarist Russia, but also because with his comedy the writer called on viewers and readers to look into their souls, to think about universal values. Gogol did not share the ideas of the revolutionary reorganization of society, but he firmly believed in the purifying power of laughter, believed in the triumph of justice, which will certainly win as soon as people realize the whole fatality of evil. So, in his play, N.V. Gogol sets himself the goal of “laughing hard” at everything that is “worthy of the ridicule of the universal”.
In the comedy The Inspector General, the author chooses a small provincial town as the scene of action, from which “if you ride for three years, you won’t reach any state.” N.V. Gogol makes city officials and “a phantasmagoric face”, Khlestakov, the heroes of the play. The genius of the author allowed him, using the example of a small island of life, to reveal those features and conflicts that characterized the social development of an entire historical era. He managed to create artistic images of a huge social and moral range. The small town in the play captured all the characteristic features of social relations of that time.
The main conflict on which the comedy is built lies in the deep contradiction between what city officials are doing and ideas about the public good, the interests of city residents. Lawlessness, embezzlement, bribery - all this is depicted in The Inspector General not as individual vices of individual officials, but as generally recognized "norms of life", outside of which those in power cannot imagine their existence. Readers and viewers do not doubt for a minute that somewhere life goes according to other laws. All the norms of relations between people in the city of the “Inspector General” look like universal in the play. Where, for example, do officials have such confidence that an inspector who has come from St. Petersburg will agree to take part in a dinner at the mayor's, will not refuse to take obvious bribes? Yes, because they know this from the experience of their city, but is it really so different from the capital?
Gogol is occupied not only with the social vices of society, but also with its moral and spiritual state. In The Inspector General, the author painted a terrible picture of the internal disunity of people who are able to unite only for a while under the influence of a common feeling of fear for all. In life, people are led by arrogance, arrogance, servility, the desire to take a more advantageous place, to get better. People have lost the idea of ​​the true meaning of life. One can sin, it is enough just, like a mayor, to regularly attend church every Sunday. To hide the true essence of their actions, officials are also helped by a fantastic lie, which is in many ways akin to Khlestakov's. Lyapkin-Tyapkin takes bribes with greyhound puppies and calls it "a completely different matter." In the city's hospitals, people are "recovering like flies." The postmaster opens other people's letters only because "death loves to know what's new in the world."
It is no coincidence that N.V. Gogol completely alters the traditional stage plot and plot development in his play, saying that “do they not now have more electricity, money capital, a profitable marriage than love?” The true values ​​of human nature for city officials have been replaced by ideas of rank. Khlopov, the superintendent of the schools, a modest titular adviser, frankly admits that if someone of a higher rank speaks to him, he “has no soul, and his tongue is stuck in the mud.” It is the reverent fear of a “significant person” that leads to the fact that officials, who perfectly understand all the emptiness and stupidity of Khlestakov, portray the utmost respect, and not only portray, but really experience it.
Describing his play "The Inspector General" as a public comedy, N.V. Gogol repeatedly emphasized the deep generalizing content of its images. The unpunished arbitrariness of the mayor, the dull diligence of Derzhimorda, the caustic innocence of the postmaster - all these are deep social generalizations. Each of the characters in the comedy symbolizes a certain range of human qualities, allowing the author to show how small modern man is, how much ideas of heroism and nobility remain in him. Thus, the author prepares us to understand one of the main ideas of the poem "Dead Souls", in which he will show that there is nothing more terrible than ordinary, crushing evil.
The image of Khlestakov, whom the author did not accidentally consider the main character of the work, can also be considered a huge creative success of the writer. It was Khlestakov who most fully expressed the essence of the era in which there is no normal human logic, in which a person is judged not by his spiritual qualities, but by his social position. And in order to take a high position, just a case is enough that will take you “from rags to riches”, you do not need to make any efforts, take care of the public good.
Thus, it can be argued that, having brought out generalized types of people and relations between them in comedy, N.V. Gogol was able to reflect the life of contemporary Russia in his work with great power. Inspired by the ideas of the high vocation of man, the writer spoke out against everything low, vicious and unspiritual, against the fall of social norms and human morality. The enormous social significance of the play lies in the power of its impact on the audience, who must realize that everything they see on the stage takes place around them and in real life.

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The time when N.V. Gogol lived and worked was marked by major social and historical events. The childhood years of the writer coincided with the defeat of Napoleon in the Patriotic War of 1812, Russia's entry into the broad international arena. The youthful years of Nikolai Gogol belong to the period when the Decembrists made plans for the revolutionary reorganization of Russia, and then openly opposed autocracy and serfdom. In the literary field, N.V. Gogol entered the time of cruel political reaction. His creative activity develops in the 30-40s of the 19th century, when the ruling circles of Nicholas I sought to eradicate any free-thinking, social independence.
The appearance in 1836 of the comedy The Inspector General acquired social importance not only because the author criticized and ridiculed the vices and shortcomings of Tsarist Russia, but also because with his comedy the writer called on viewers and readers to look into their souls, to think about universal values. Gogol did not share the ideas of the revolutionary reorganization of society, but he firmly believed in the purifying power of laughter, believed in the triumph of justice, which will certainly win as soon as people realize the whole fatality of evil. So, in his play, N.V. Gogol sets himself the goal of “laughing hard” at everything that is “worthy of the ridicule of the universal”.
In the comedy The Inspector General, the author chooses a small provincial town as the scene of action, from which “if you ride for three years, you won’t reach any state.” N.V. Gogol makes city officials and “a phantasmagoric face”, Khlestakov, the heroes of the play. The genius of the author allowed him, using the example of a small island of life, to reveal those features and conflicts that characterized the social development of an entire historical era. He managed to create artistic images of a huge social and moral range. The small town in the play captured all the characteristic features of social relations of that time.
The main conflict on which the comedy is built lies in the deep contradiction between what city officials are doing and ideas about the public good, the interests of city residents. Lawlessness, embezzlement, bribery - all this is depicted in the "Inspector" not as individual vices of individual officials, but as generally recognized "norms of life", outside of which those in power cannot imagine their existence. Readers and viewers do not doubt for a minute that somewhere life goes according to other laws. All the norms of relations between people in the city of the “Inspector General” look like universal in the play. Where, for example, do officials have such confidence that an inspector who has come from St. Petersburg will agree to take part in a dinner at the mayor's, will not refuse to take obvious bribes? Yes, because they know this from the experience of their city, but is it really so different from the capital?
Gogol is occupied not only with the social vices of society, but also with its moral and spiritual state. In The Inspector General, the author painted a terrible picture of the internal disunity of people who are able to unite only for a while under the influence of a common feeling of fear for all. In life, people are led by arrogance, arrogance, servility, the desire to take a more advantageous place, to get better. People have lost the idea of ​​the true meaning of life. One can sin, it is enough just, like a mayor, to regularly attend church every Sunday. To hide the true essence of their actions, officials are also helped by a fantastic lie, which is in many ways akin to Khlestakov's. Lyapkin-Tyapkin takes bribes with greyhound puppies and calls it "a completely different matter." In the city's hospitals, people are "recovering like flies." The postmaster opens other people's letters only because "death loves to know what's new in the world."
It is no coincidence that N.V. Gogol completely alters the traditional stage plot and plot development in his play, saying that “do they not now have more electricity, money capital, a profitable marriage than love?” The true values ​​of human nature for city officials have been replaced by ideas of rank. Khlopov, the superintendent of the schools, a modest titular adviser, frankly admits that if someone of a higher rank speaks to him, he “has no soul, and his tongue is stuck in the mud.” It is the reverent fear of a “significant person” that leads to the fact that officials, who perfectly understand all the emptiness and stupidity of Khlestakov, portray the utmost respect, and not only portray, but really experience it.
Describing his play "The Inspector General" as a public comedy, N.V. Gogol repeatedly emphasized the deep generalizing content of its images. The unpunished arbitrariness of the mayor, the dull diligence of Derzhimorda, the caustic innocence of the postmaster - all these are profound social generalizations. Each of the characters in the comedy symbolizes a certain range of human qualities, allowing the author to show how small modern man is, how much ideas of heroism and nobility remain in him. Thus, the author prepares us to understand one of the main ideas of the poem "Dead Souls", in which he will show that there is nothing more terrible than ordinary, crushing evil.
The image of Khlestakov, whom the author did not accidentally consider the main character of the work, can also be considered a huge creative success of the writer. It was Khlestakov who most fully expressed the essence of the era in which there is no normal human logic, in which a person is judged not by his spiritual qualities, but by his social position. And in order to take a high position, just a case is enough that will take you “from rags to riches”, you do not need to make any efforts, take care of the public good.
Thus, it can be argued that, having brought out generalized types of people and relations between them in comedy, N.V. Gogol was able to reflect the life of contemporary Russia in his work with great power. Inspired by the ideas of the high vocation of man, the writer spoke out against everything low, vicious and unspiritual, against the fall of social norms and human morality. The enormous social significance of the play lies in the power of its impact on the audience, who must realize that everything they see on the stage takes place around them and in real life.

The time when N. V. Gogol lived and worked was marked by great social and historical events. The childhood years of the writer coincided with the defeat of Napoleon in the Patriotic War of 1812, Russia's entry into the broad international arena. The youthful years of Nikolai Gogol belong to the period when the Decembrists made plans for the revolutionary restructuring of Russia, and then openly opposed autocracy and serfdom. In the literary field, N.V. Gogol entered the time of cruel political reaction. His creative activity develops in the 30s and 40s of the 19th century, when the ruling circles of Nicholas I sought to eradicate any free thought, social independence

The appearance in 1836 of the comedy "The Inspector General" acquired social importance not only because the author criticized and ridiculed the vices and shortcomings of tsarist Russia, but also because with his comedy the writer called on viewers and readers to look into their souls, to think about universal values. Gogol did not share the ideas of the revolutionary reorganization of society, but he sacredly believed in strength, purifies, laughter, believed in the triumph of justice, which would certainly win as soon as people realize all the fatality of evil. So, in his play, N.V. Gogol sets himself the goal of “laughing hard at everything that is“ worthy of ridicule in general. In the comedy The Inspector General, the author chooses a small provincial town as the scene of action, from which “if you ride for three years, you won’t reach any state”. N. V. Gogol makes city officials and the “phantasmagoric face”, Khlestakov, the heroes of the play.

The genius of the author allowed him, using the example of a small island of life, to reveal those features and conflicts that characterized the social development of an entire historical era. He managed to create artistic images of a huge social and moral range. The small town in the play remembered all the characteristic features of social relations of that time. The main conflict on which the comedy is built lies in the deep contradiction between what city officials do and ideas about the public good, the interests of the city's residents. Lawlessness, embezzlement, bribery - all this is depicted in the “Inspector General” not as individual vices of individual officials, but as generally recognized “norms of life”, outside of which those in power cannot imagine their existence. Readers and viewers do not doubt for a minute that somewhere life goes according to other laws.

All the norms of relations ‘between people in the city of the “Inspector General” look in the play as universal. Where, for example, do officials have such confidence that the inspector who came from St. Petersburg will agree to take part in a dinner at the mayor's office, will not refuse to take obvious bribes? Yes, because they know this from the experience of their city, but is it really so different from the capital?

Gogol is occupied not only with the social vices of society, but also with its moral and spiritual state. In The Inspector General, the author painted a terrible picture of the internal disunity of people who are able to unite only for a while under the influence of a feeling of fear common to all. In life, people are led by arrogance, arrogance, servility, the desire to take a more advantageous place, to get better. People have lost the idea of ​​the true meaning of life

You can sin, it is enough just, like a mayor, to regularly attend church every week. To hide the true essence of their actions, the officials are also helped by a fantastic untruth, which is in many ways akin to Khlestakov's. Lyapkin-tyapkin swindles with greyhound puppies and calls it “a completely different matter.” In the city's hospitals, people are "recovering like flies."

The postmaster opens other people's letters only because "death loves to know what's new in the world." It is not by chance that N. V. Gogol completely reverses the traditional stage plot and development of the plot in his play, saying that “don’t they now have more electricity, money capital, a profitable marriage than love?”. The true values ​​of human nature for city officials are replaced by ideas of rank. The superintendent of the schools, Khlopov, a modest titular adviser, frankly admits that if someone speaks to him in a higher way, then he doesn’t have a soul, and his speech is stuck in the mud. It is the reverent fear of a “significant person” that leads to the fact that officials, who perfectly understand all the emptiness and stupidity of Khlestakov, portray complete respect, and not only portray, but really experience it. Describing his play “The Inspector General” as a public comedy, N.V. Gogol repeatedly emphasized the deep generalizing meaning of its images.

The unpunished arbitrariness of the mayor, the stupid diligence of Derzhimorda, the vicious innocence of the postmaster - all these are deep social generalizations. Each of the characters in the comedy symbolizes a certain range of human qualities, allowing the author to show how crushed modern man is, how much ideas of heroism and nobility remain in him. The image of allsoch can also be considered a huge creative success of the writer.

ru 2001-2005 Khlestakov, whom the author did not accidentally consider the main character of the work. It was Khlestakov who most fully expressed the essence of the era in which there is no normal human logic, in which a person is judged not by his spiritual qualities, but by his social position. And in order to take a high position, just a case is enough that will take you “from rags to riches”, you do not need to make any efforts, take care of the public good. Thus, it can be argued that, having brought out generalized types of people and relations between them in a comedy, N.V. Gogol was able with great force to beat off the life of contemporary Russia in his work

Inspired by the ideas of the high vocation of man, the writer spoke out against everything low, vicious and unspiritual, against the fall of social norms and human morality. The enormous social significance of the play lies in the power of its impact on the audience, who must realize that everything they see on the stage is happening around them and in real life.

Save - "The social significance of N.V. Gogol's comedy" The Inspector General ". The finished work appeared. The time when N.V. Gogol lived and worked was marked by major social and historical events.
The childhood years of the writer coincided with the defeat of Napoleon in the Patriotic War of 1812, Russia's entry into the broad international arena. The youthful years of Nikolai Gogol belong to the period when the Decembrists made plans for the revolutionary reorganization of Russia, and then openly opposed autocracy and serfdom. In the literary field, N.V. Gogol entered the time of cruel political reaction. His creative activity develops in the 30-40s of the 19th century, when the ruling circles of Nicholas I sought to eradicate any free-thinking, social independence.
The appearance in 1836 of the comedy "The Inspector General" acquired social importance not only because the author criticized and ridiculed the vices and shortcomings of tsarist Russia, but also because with his comedy the writer called on viewers and readers to look into their souls, to think about universal values. Gogol did not share the ideas of the revolutionary reorganization of society, but he firmly believed in the purifying power of laughter, believed in the triumph of justice, which will certainly win as soon as people realize the whole fatality of evil. So, in his play, N.V. Gogol sets himself the goal of “laughing hard” at everything that is “worthy of the ridicule of the universal”.
In the comedy "The Government Inspector", the author chooses a small provincial town as the scene of action, from which "if you ride for three years, you won't reach any state." N.V. Gogol makes city officials and "a phantasmagoric face", Khlestakov, the heroes of the play. The genius of the author allowed him, using the example of a small island of life, to reveal those features and conflicts that characterized the social development of an entire historical era. He managed to create artistic images of a huge social and moral range. The small town in the play captured all the characteristic features of the social relations of that time. The main conflict on which the comedy is built lies in the deep contradiction between what city officials are doing and ideas about the public good, the interests of the city's residents. Lawlessness, embezzlement, bribery - all this is depicted in The Inspector General not as individual vices of individual officials, but as generally recognized "norms of life", outside of which those in power cannot imagine their existence. Readers and viewers do not doubt for a minute that somewhere life goes according to other laws. All the norms of relations "between people in the town of the Inspector General" look like universal in the play. How, for example, do officials have such confidence that the auditor who came from St. Petersburg will agree to take part in a dinner with the mayor, will not refuse to take obvious bribes? that they know this from the experience of their city, but is it really so different from the capital?
Gogol is occupied not only with the social vices of society, but also with its moral and spiritual state. In The Inspector General, the author painted a terrible picture of the internal disunity of people who are able to unite only for a while under the influence of a feeling of fear common to all. In life, people are led by arrogance, arrogance, servility, the desire to take a more advantageous place, to get better. People have lost the idea of ​​the true meaning of life. One can sin, it is enough just, like a mayor, to regularly attend church every Sunday. To hide the true essence of their actions, officials are also helped by a fantastic lie, which is in many ways akin to Khlestakov's. Lyapkin-Tyapkin takes bribes with greyhound puppies and calls it "a completely different matter." In the city's hospitals, people are "recovering like flies." The postmaster opens other people's letters only because "death loves to know what's new in the world."
It is no coincidence that N.V. Gogol completely alters the traditional stage plot and plot development in his play, saying that "do they not now have more electricity, money capital, a profitable marriage than love?" The true values ​​of human nature for city officials have been replaced by ideas of rank. The overseer of the schools, Khlopov, a modest titular adviser, frankly admits that if someone of a higher rank speaks to him, he "has no soul, and his tongue is stuck in the mud." It is the reverent fear of a "significant person" that leads to the fact that officials, who are well aware of all the emptiness and stupidity of Khlestakov, portray complete respect, and not only portray, but really experience it.
Describing his play "The Inspector General" as a public comedy, N.V. Gogol repeatedly emphasized the deep generalizing content of its images. The unpunished arbitrariness of the mayor, the dull diligence of Derzhimorda, the caustic innocence of the postmaster - all these are profound social generalizations. Each of the characters in the comedy symbolizes a certain range of human qualities, allowing the author to show how small modern man is, how much ideas of heroism and nobility remain in him.
The image of Khlestakov, whom the author did not accidentally consider the main character of the work, can also be considered a huge creative success of the writer. It was Khlestakov who most fully expressed the essence of the era in which there is no normal human logic, in which a person is judged not by his spiritual qualities, but by his social position. And in order to occupy a high position, just a case is enough that will take you "from rags to riches", you do not need to make any efforts, take care of the public good.
Thus, it can be argued that, having brought out generalized types of people and relations between them in a comedy, N.V. Gogol was able to reflect the life of contemporary Russia in his work with great power. Inspired by the ideas of the high vocation of man, the writer spoke out against everything low, vicious and unspiritual, against the fall of social norms and human morality. The enormous social significance of the play lies in the power of its impact on the audience, who must realize that everything they see on the stage takes place around them and in real life.

The time when N.V. Gogol lived and worked was marked by major social and historical events.
The childhood years of the writer coincided with the defeat of Napoleon in the Patriotic War of 1812, Russia's entry into the broad international arena. The youthful years of Nikolai Gogol belong to the period when the Decembrists made plans for the revolutionary reorganization of Russia, and then openly opposed autocracy and serfdom. In the literary field, N.V. Gogol entered the time of cruel political reaction. His creative activity is developing

In the 30-40s of the XIX century, when the ruling circles of Nicholas I sought to eradicate any free-thinking, social independence.
The appearance of the comedy The Inspector General in 1836 acquired social importance not only because the author criticized and ridiculed the vices and shortcomings of Tsarist Russia, but also because with his comedy the writer called on viewers and readers to look into their souls, to think about universal values. Gogol did not share the ideas of the revolutionary reorganization of society, but he firmly believed in the purifying power of laughter, believed in the triumph of justice, which will certainly win as soon as people realize the whole fatality of evil. So, in his play, N.V. Gogol sets himself the goal of “laughing hard” at everything that is “worthy of the ridicule of the universal”.
In the comedy The Inspector General, the author chooses a small provincial town as the scene of action, from which “if you ride for three years, you won’t reach any state.” N.V. Gogol makes city officials and the “phantasmagoric face”, Khlestakov, the heroes of the play. The genius of the author allowed him, using the example of a small island of life, to reveal those features and conflicts that characterized the social development of an entire historical era. He managed to create artistic images of a huge social and moral range. The small town in the play captured all the characteristic features of the social relations of that time. The main conflict on which the comedy is built lies in the deep contradiction between what city officials are doing and ideas about the public good, the interests of the city's inhabitants. Lawlessness, embezzlement, bribery - all this is depicted in The Inspector General not as individual vices of individual officials, but as generally recognized "standards of life", outside of which those in power cannot imagine their existence. Readers and viewers do not doubt for a minute that somewhere life goes according to other laws. All the norms of relations ‘between people in the city of the “Inspector General” look like universal in the play. Where, for example, do officials have such confidence that an inspector who has come from St. Petersburg will agree to take part in a dinner at the mayor's, will not refuse to take obvious bribes? Yes, because they know this from the experience of their city, but is it really so different from the capital?
Gogol is occupied not only with the social vices of society, but also with its moral and spiritual state. In The Inspector General, the author painted a terrible picture of the internal disunity of people who are able to unite only for a while under the influence of a common feeling of fear for all. In life, people are led by arrogance, arrogance, servility, the desire to take a more advantageous place, to get better. People have lost the idea of ​​the true meaning of life. One can sin, it is enough just, like a mayor, to regularly attend church every Sunday. To hide the true essence of their actions, officials are also helped by a fantastic lie, which is in many ways akin to Khlestakov's. Lyapkin-Tyapkin takes bribes with greyhound puppies and calls it "a completely different matter." In the city's hospitals, people are "recovering like flies." The postmaster opens other people's letters only because "death loves to know what's new in the world."
It is no coincidence that N.V. Gogol completely reverses the traditional stage plot and plot development in his play, saying that “do they now have more electricity, money capital, a profitable marriage than love?” The true values ​​of human nature for city officials have been replaced by ideas of rank. Khlopov, the superintendent of the schools, a modest titular adviser, frankly admits that if someone of a higher rank speaks to him, he “has no soul, and his tongue is stuck in the mud.” It is the reverent fear of the “significant person” that leads to the fact that officials, who perfectly understand all the emptiness and stupidity of Khlestakov, portray the utmost respect, and not only portray, but really experience it.
Describing his play The Inspector General as a public comedy, N.V. Gogol repeatedly emphasized the deep generalizing content of its images. The unpunished arbitrariness of the mayor, the dull diligence of Derzhimorda, the caustic innocence of the postmaster - all these are profound social generalizations. Each of the characters in the comedy symbolizes a certain range of human qualities, allowing the author to show how small modern man is, how much ideas of heroism and nobility remain in him.
The image of Khlestakov, whom the author did not accidentally consider the main character of the work, can also be considered a huge creative success of the writer. It was Khlestakov who most fully expressed the essence of the era in which there is no normal human logic, in which a person is judged not by his spiritual qualities, but by his social position. And in order to take a high position, just a case is enough that will take you “from rags to riches”, you do not need to make any efforts, take care of the public good.
Thus, it can be argued that, having brought out generalized types of people and relations between them in comedy, N.V. Gogol was able to reflect the life of contemporary Russia in his work with great power. Inspired by the ideas of the high vocation of man, the writer spoke out against everything low, vicious and unspiritual, against the fall of social norms and human morality. The enormous social significance of the play lies in the power of its impact on the audience, who must realize that everything they see on the stage takes place around them and in real life.

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4. The appearance in 1836 of the comedy The Inspector General was a significant event in the public life of the 19th century. The author not only criticized and ridiculed ...
5. In the comedy "Inspector General" N.V. Gogol collected in one work all the injustices of life, all immorality in order to laugh ...
6. The comedy The Inspector General was written in 1835. She wrote for two months. The plot of the comedy was suggested by A. S. Pushkin. In 1836...
7. The events of N. V. Gogol's comedy "The Inspector General" take place in 1831 in a certain county town. As the mayor said about him, “Yes, ...
8. It is known that Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, no matter how important the fight against all kinds of bribe-takers, embezzlers and other crooks seemed to him, ...
9. The appearance of the comedy The Inspector General in 1836 caused an uplifted, exciting feeling in society. The spring of this year gave the audience a meeting with the real ...
10. Together with unlucky government officials who live and work in a small provincial town, Gogol introduces us in The Inspector General to a visiting sly from ...
11. According to V. Ya. Bryusov, in his work N. V. Gogol strove for "the eternal and the infinite." Artistic thought N. V....
12. The work of one of the most outstanding literary talents - Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol - fell on the gloomy era of Nicholas I. These were ...
13. As such, bureaucracy appeared in Russia under Peter I. It was he who introduced the famous "Table of Ranks", where all government posts ...
14. Even with a superficial reading, the comedy The Inspector General strikes with the modernity of its sound. It seems that these are modern representatives of the state bureaucracy dressed in ...
15. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol gave in the comedy The Inspector General a broad picture of bureaucratic and bureaucratic rule in Russia in the 30s of the 19th century. In comedy...
16. The plot of the comedy The Inspector General, as well as the plot of the immortal poem Dead Souls, was presented to Gogol by A. S. Pushkin. Gogol for a long time ...
17. N. V. Gogol's comedy "The Inspector General" is one of the most striking dramatic works of Russian literature of the 19th century. The author continued the traditions of the Russian...
18. In The Government Inspector, I decided to collect in one heap everything that was bad in Russia that I knew then, all the injustices that are being done ...
19. Nikolaev Russia was not a poor or politically weak country, but the comedy The Inspector General depicts precisely Russia during the reign of Nicholas I. One ...
20. N. V. Gogol's comedy "The Government Inspector" is a wonderful realistic work, which reveals the world of small and medium-sized bureaucracy in Russia in the second quarter ...
21. N. V. Gogol's comedy "The Inspector General" is one of the most striking dramatic works of Russian literature of the 19th century. The author continued the traditions of the Russian...
22. When the comedy "The Inspector General" was released, critics attacked its author with incredible anger. Gogol wrote: “The officials are elderly and respectable...
23. The protagonists of N. V. Gogol's comedy "The Government Inspector", without a doubt, are the mayor and Khlestakov. In the work, these characters act as ...
24. “In comedy, I decided to collect everything bad in Russia and laugh at everyone at once,” wrote N. V. Gogol —...