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Perhaps one of the most famous Russian-language plays in the world. In the pages of this work Gogol ridiculed all public vices, characteristic not only of that time, but also, alas, modernity: laziness, graculation, treasury, corruption, lawlessness, disrespect of human dignity. The main character - Khlestakov - is not a hero at all. And not even classic for such comedies "cheat." He's just a sliver of the whirlpool of circumstances. And the main driving force is fear. Everyone is madly afraid that Khlestakov is an auditor, in whose hands the fate and careers of officials and officials.

"A brightly lit hall. A large table set up for dinner. At the table, the footks in tailcoats are clapping. Backstage music plays the last figure of the framed.

The main character, forty-five-year-old Larissa Gennadyevna, lives in a small apartment in the center of Moscow and almost does not come out of it. On the wall hangs a portrait of her in her youth, with whom she constantly talks, remembering her past. Once her dream was to marry a minister to envy her failed sister. And so it happened, but there was no love in Larissa's life - until she met another man ...