Which Russian author wrote the play 'The Government Inspector'?

Nikolai Gogol wrote the play The Government Inspector. First published and premiered in 1836, the Russian satire is also known as The Inspector General and is titled Revizor in Russian.

The play opens when corrupt officials in a provincial town hear that an undercover government inspector is arriving. They mistake a penniless traveler, Khlestakov, for the inspector and compete to bribe or flatter him while attempting to conceal their misconduct. Gogol uses the farce to expose greed, vanity, incompetence, and bureaucratic corruption in imperial Russia.

Alexander Pushkin reportedly supplied Gogol with the anecdote that inspired the basic mistaken-identity plot. The play's staging required the personal approval of Tsar Nicholas I, who attended its premiere at Saint Petersburg's Alexandrinsky Theatre. Its sharp satire still makes it one of Gogol's best-known dramatic works.

The other options are major Russian writers, but they did not write this play: Ivan Turgenev was known especially for novels and short fiction, Pushkin for poetry and prose, and Anton Chekhov for later dramas such as The Seagull and Uncle Vanya.