Principal Works
Eia imp. velichestvu vsemilostiveishei gosudaryne imp. Anne Ioannovne … pozdravitel'nyia ody v pervyi den' novago goda 1740 ot Kadetskago korpusa sochinennyia chrez Aleksandra Sumarokova (poetry) 1740
Tri ody parafrasticheskie psalma 143, sochinennye chrez trekh stikhotvortsev, iz kotorykh kazhdyi odnu slozhil osoblivo [Paraphrase of Psalm 143; translator; with Vasilii Trediakovsky and Mikhail Lomonosov] (poetry) 1744
Khorev tragediia (play) 1747, revised 1768
Dve epistoly. V pervoi predlagaetsia o ruskom iazyke, a vo vtoroi o stikhotvorstve [Two Epistles; revised as Nastavlenie khotiashchim byti pisateliami (Advice to Would-Be Authors) 1774] (essays) 1748
Gamlet tragediia [Hamlet] (play) 1748
Artistona tragediia [Aristona] (play) 1751
Sinav i Truvor tragediia [Sinav and Truvor] (play) 1751; revised, 1768
Tsefal i Prokris opera [Cephalus and Procris] (opera) 1755
“‘Moskve,’ ‘Velikomu gradu Moskve,’ i ‘Moskve reke’” [“‘To Moscow,’ ‘To the Great City of Moscow,’ ‘To the Moscow River’”; translator] (poetry) 1755
Al'tsesta opera [Alceste] (opera) 1759
Pribezhishche dobrodeteli. Balet [Sanctuary for Virtue] (ballet) 1759
“Oda e. i. v. … Ekaterine Alekseevne … na den' vozshestviia eia na vserossiiskii prestol iiunia 28 dnia 1762 goda” (poetry) 1762
“Oda e. i. v. … Ekaterine Alekseevne … na den' koronovaniia eia sentiabria 22 dnia 1763 goda” (poetry) 1763
Opekun komediia [The Guardian] (play) 1765
Elegiia (poetry) 1768
Iaropolk i Dimiza tragediia 1768; revised as Iaroslav i Demiza [Iaroslav and Demiza] (play) 1768
Likhoimets komediia [The Usurer] (play) 1768
Semira tragediia (play) 1768
Tri brata sovmestniki komediia [Three Brother Rivals] (play) 1768
Vysheslav tragediia (play) 1768
“Oda e. i. v. … Ekaterine Alekseevne … na vziatie Khotina i na pokorenie Moldavii” (poetry) 1769
Pustynnik drama [The Hermit] (play) 1769
Raznyia stikhotvoreniia [Various Poems] (poetry) 1769
Dimitrii Samozvanets tragediia [Dimitrii the Usurper; Dimitrii the Pretender; Dimitrii the Impostor] (play) 1771
“Madrigaly” (poetry) 1773
“Elegiia na smert' Marii Ivanovny Elaginoi …” (poetry) 1774
“Oda Grigoriiu Aleksandrovichu Potemkinu. 1774” (poetry) 1774
Pis'mo ko priiateliu v Moskvu (letters) 1774
Eklogi [Eclogues] (poetry) 1774
Elegii liubovnyia [Love Elegies] (poetry) 1774
Mstislav (play) 1774
Ody torzhestvennye [Triumphal Odes] (poetry) 1774
Satiry [Satires] (essays) 1774
“Oda e. i. v. … Ekaterine Alekseevne … na torzhestvo mira s Portoiu Otomanskoiu 1775 goda iiulia dnia” (poetry) 1775
Polnoe sobranie vsekh sochinenii, v stikhakh i proze, [Complete Works in Verse and Prose]; 10 volumes, edited by N. I. Novikov (essays, drama, poetry) 1781-1782, revised 1787
Chudovishchi komediia [Monsters] (play) 1786
Pustaia ssora, komediia [An Empty Quarrel] (play) 1786
Rogonosets po voobrazheniiu, komediia [The Imaginary Cuckold; The Cuckold in Imagination] (play) 1786
Tresotinius komediia [Trissotinius] (play) 1786
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