The first volume contains the original poetic works of A.E. Crimean and his translations from Persian, Turkish, Arabic. In such a wide volume, the poetic heritage of the writer is published for the first time. The second half of the volume contains the best prose works from the book "Agendas and Sketches from Ukrainian Life" (Kolomyia-Lvov, 1895) and from the series "Beirut Stories," published 1906 in the journal "New Community."