The French poet Andre Chénier (1762-1794), who died on the scaffold during the French Revolution, became one of the legendary figures of European literature: the creator of wonderfully harmonious, light and melodic poems, who preferred to remain in the literary “shadow”, he recklessly rushed in the fight against violence and mass madness, knowingly knowing about their doom and choosing death. The collection includes: “Idylls”, fragments, elegies, messages, odes, iambics, prose and much more.

CONTENTS: From compiler (5). Works of 1819 (7). ADDITIONS Selected poems by Andre Chenier, not included in the collection of 1819 or significantly changed in it (246). Poems by Andre Chenier in Russian translations and imitations (269). Poems by Russian poets, dedicated to André Chénier (400).APPENDICES.P.Grechanaya. Andre Chenier - poet (417). E.P.Grechanaya. André Chénier in Russia (448). Notes. (E.P. Grechanaya) (472). ADDITIONS Selected poems by Andre Chenier, not included in the 1819 collection or significantly changed in it (539). Poems by Andre Chenier in Russian translations and imitations (546). Translations of poems by Andre Chenier, not included to this edition (596). List of illustrations (599).

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS: J.-B. Suve. Portrait of Andre Chénier, 1794, oil on canvas, Paris, private collection. (Frontispiece). Title page of the collection of 1819 (6). A. Chenier. Elegy XXXV. Facsimile of an 1824 autograph from the 1780s. Location unknown. (111).A.Chenier. Yambs. Autograph, 1794. Paris, National Library. (184).Avr.Norov. Translation of the idyll by A. Chenier “Arkas and Palemon”. Autograph, 1819-1820. RGALI. (274).First publication of A. Chenier’s poem “Pres des bords ou Venise est reine de la mer...”. (282).Poem by A. Chenier “Pres des bords ou Venise est reine de la mer...”, recorded by A.S. Pushkin. Pushkin House. (284). A.S. Pushkin. Translation of the poem by A. Chenier “?ta, mont annobli par cette nuit ardente...”. Autograph, 1835. Pushkin House. (286). S.M. Soloviev. Translation of A. Chenier’s poem “On the Death of a Child.” Autograph, 1902. RGALI. (384).Kazes-son. Andre Chenier at the age of 11 years old, oil on canvas. Museum of Carcassonne. Cazes the son. Portrait of Madame Chenier, before 1765 (?), oil on canvas. Museum of Carcassonne. Cases the Son. Group portrait of the family of Louis Chenier, 1773, oil on canvas. Museum of Carcassonne. L. David. Portrait of Marie-Joseph Chénier. Museum of the Palace of Versailles. J.-B.-J. Augustin. Portrait of André Chénier (?), 1790 (?), miniature. Paris, Library of the Arsenal. Portrait of Françoise (Fanny) Lecou. A copy of an unsurvived portrait of L. David. Versailles. Part of the street Satori (now Marshal Joffre Street), where A. Chenier lived, modern. photograph.Hubert Robert. Ball game in Saint-Lazare, 1794, aqua. Paris, Carnavalet Museum. Leroy, student of J.-B. Suve. Portrait of J.-A.Roucher, 1794, fig. Paris, National Library. S.-L.-L. Muller. Summoning the last victims of Thermidor (detail), 1850, oil on canvas. Museum of the Palace of Versailles. Paris. Nation Square. On the right side, in the depths, there was a guillotine. In the center is the sculpture “Triumph of the Republic”, modern. photograph. P.-J. David d'Angers. Plaster copy of the bronze medallion of Andre Chenier, 1844. Museum of Carcassonne, Paris. Cemetery Picpus. A white marble plaque (closer to the fence) in memory of Andre Chénier is installed on the wall, behind which there is a common grave of those executed in the last days of terror, modern. photograph.