The world premiere of the opera by Vladimir Dashkevich The Government Inspector took place at the Novosibirsk State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet on the 11th of July 2007. A few months later, on the 21st of December, a new version of the opera was presented at the Moscow Chamber Musical Theatre (now the Chamber Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre). On the 31st of March 2012, its renewal in the second author’s edition took place on the stage of Pokrovsky’s theatre.