The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the dramas by Valery Brusov (“The Dictator”) and Mikhail Kuzmin (“The Death of Nero”). The dramas have a similar publication history, plot, and stylistic overlap. The stylistic dominant of the dramas is the gender division of the characters, a reference to the historical facts of ancient Roman history, and a dystopian interpretation of the events of the early XX century.