Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade (Marquis de Sade) belongs to the writers called “damned”. The fate of his works is tragic and worthy of independent novels. The fate of the writer’s most famous work, “The One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom,” was unknown. Nowadays the novel stands in such a textbook series as “Satyricon”, “The Golden Ass”, “Decameron”, “Dangerous Liaisons”, “Tropic of Cancer”, “Wings”... Only in the year of the bicentenary anniversary of the Marquis de Sade, his work was recognized as national the property of France, and his best novels were published in the most prestigious French series “Library of the Pleiades”. Here is the text of the first edition of the novel by the Marquis de Sade in Russian, published without cuts.

The translation was made from the publication: “Les cent vingt journees de Sodome”. Oluvres ompletes du Marquis de Sade, tome premier. 1986, Paris. Pauvert.