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"The Imperial Envoy" is Gogol's masterpiece, which marks the beginning of the mature stage of Russian realist drama creation. The novel describes the playboy Khlestakov who lost everything in a bet and was at a loss. When he was passing through a city in another province from Petersburg, he was mistaken for an "imperial envoy", causing panic among the local officials and making many jokes. It fully exposed the bureaucrats' tendency to flatter others, take bribes, and engage in personal malpractice, thereby exposing the darkness, decadence, and absurdity of serfdom-based Russian society.
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