Nikolai Evreinov's production of The Government Inspector was a milestone in the history of Russian theatre, and in 1922 and 1923 when Evreinov visited Berlin and Paris, his plays were produced by the likes of Jacques Copeau and Charles Dullin.
His production of The Government Inspector was a milestone in the history of Russian theatre: each act was staged so as to parody one of the following aesthetics: provincial realist theatres, the Moscow Art Theatre of Constantin Stanislavski, the techniques of Edward Gordon Craig and Max Reinhardt, and slapstick comedy films. In 1922 and 1923 Evreinov visited Berlin and Paris where his plays were produced by the likes of Jacques Copeau and Charles Dullin. 
