RUSS 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Landed Gentry, Autocracy, Vibraphone
22 Feb 2018
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The inspector general: set during nicholas i reign (1825-1855, he was a strict, conservative military man, his three doctrines: orthodoxy, autocracy, and nationality. Important elements to know for the play: increased state apparatus (especially bureaucracy, establishment of the third section: spies and informers, administration is very corrupt and incompetent. May be proof that pushkin did give him the idea: gogol"s friends pushed to get the play on stage (spoke to people in the third. Section: finally the tsar approved it, problem with staging, actors did not know what to do with it. The plot was to real, not the dramatic scenes they were used to: there was no dress rehearsal, tsar attended the premier and enjoyed it. Initial responses to the play were all over the place: laughter) the play that was so against his intentions, he fled russia: gogol was not trying to question the system, nor the tsar.
