Guillaume Apollinaire (1890–1918) is not only a great French poet, but also a brilliant prose writer, author of the books “The Rotting Sorcerer,” “The Heresiarch and Co.,” “The End of Babylon,” etc., as well as many stories, “ fairy tales" and stories preserved in manuscripts or scattered in magazines. Apollinaire himself invariably emphasized that he considered prose no less significant for himself than poetry. The novel “The End of Babylon,” translated into Russian for the first time, paints pictures of the latest events of the era of historical Babylon, shown through the fates of characters borrowed by the author from the reality around him. Critics have repeatedly emphasized the provocative and scandalous nature of The End of Babylon, which, of course, attracts additional attention to this work.