Firdousi's poem "Shahnameh" is a classic work and national pride of Persian, Tajik literature, as well as a significant part of the Iranian-speaking peoples of modern Afghanistan. Firdousi was a follower of the Tajik-Persian poetic school of the 10th century. and worked on the poem for 35 years. Firdousi's poem is characterized by deep drama. The heroes are put in difficult situations, they all the time solve important tasks for them and for the persons (or masses) associated with them, face each other in acute, sometimes tragic conflicts. The humanism and nationality of Firdousi's poem, its high artistic merits made it one of the most significant and widely known classics of world literature. "Shahnameh" in translations into many languages ​ ​ of the world has become the property of wide circles of readers. In the post-Soviet space, Firdousi's poem was first met by free processing by V.A. Zhukovsky episode "Rustem and Zorab." At the turn of the XIX and XX centuries. translations of fragments of Shahnameh appeared. A significant number of poetic anthologies were published in Soviet times, in 1934-1936, in connection with the celebration of the millennium since the birth of Firdousi.