Revisor (The Government Inspector), written by Nikolai Gogol and produced under the direction of Vs. Meyerhold (1874 -1940) at The State Theater named after Vs. Meyerhold, Moscow, on December 9, 1926.

   Scenes from Revisor (The Inspector General or The Government Inspector), written by Russian playwright Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1952) and produced under the direction of Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold (1874 -1940) at the State Theater named after Meyerhold, Moscow, on December 9, 1926.

Anti-illusionist stage from Vsevolod Meyerhold's production of Nikolay Gogol's Revizor, Moscow, 1926

The final scene of the play The Government Inspector

 When Meyerhold directed Revisor in the 1920s, he found a means of showing a frozen group of people. He had them replaced with wax figures. 

 "The Government Inspector". Episode 7. — "Behind the bottle of fat belly"

The Government Inspector in Meyerhold's theatre