The performance “The Government Inspector” by the Lithuanian stage director R. Tuminas is a tough, ruthless story about Russia.

This is a country of barbarity and ungodliness. The only sign of civilization is a telegraph post on the forestage. Money is stored in the cellar, under potatoes. A servant in a tavern who brought a wrong bill is immediately beheaded with an axe. Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky are stoned to death. The final of the performance is a real apocalypse. Thunder rumbles, downpour bursts, the Gogol statesmen find themselves on a float, and postmaster has to catch them up on a boat. The church ruined by unpeopled starts furious revengeful motion in circle, sweeping away objects and people …