"It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry."
Epigraph
#OTD in 1836.
Nikolai Gogol's satire The Government Inspector is premièred at the Alexandra Theatre in Saint Petersburg before the Emperor Nicholas I of Russia and first published there. Originally published in 1836, the play was revised for an 1842 edition.
The Inspector-General at PG English translation by Thomas Seltzer:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/3735