This is a very dramatic broadside for a famous comedy called The Inspector General by Gogol. It was performed at the Revolution Theatre by the avant-garde theatre director Meyerhold during the height of the New Economic Policy. The play " was one of the most complicated philosophic and apocalyptic phantasmagorias in the European arts of the 20th century, similar to the painting of Picasso or Dali, the music of Shostakovich or Britten, or the novels of Mann or Kafka
