The author's dramaturgy is included in the first volume of this Collected Works ("Corion," "Brigadier," "Undergrowth," "Good Mentor" and "Choice of the Tutor"), poetry ("Fox-Koznodey," "Message to my servants," "Message to Yamshchikov," etc.), his philological works ("The Experience of the Russian Estate," preface to Terasson's novel "Heroic Virtue...," etc.), as well as translations of works of art (Golberg's Moralizing Fables). The introductory article "The Life and Work of D.I. Fonvizin" by G.P. Makogonenko. The second volume of this Collected Works includes the author's prose ("The narrative of the imaginary deaf and dumb," "Teaching spoken in the spirits of the day," "Callisthenes," "Friend of honest people, or Starodum"), journalism, as well as letters and diaries.