The publication included poems from the most significant poetry collections of Eluard (1895-1952), which included cycles covering his work from 1914 to 1951, from the early surrealist to the heroic time of the Resistance and the latest poems. This edition is the most complete collection of Eluard's poems in Russian. All poems are given in the translation of one poet - Maurice Nikolaevich Waxmacher (1926-1994); the presence of other translations is not specifically specified. The article and notes are written by Samaria Izrailevich Velikovsky (1931-1990), one of the best specialists in French poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries.