The article is devoted to the consideration of the specifics of poetic translations published in the magazine «Russkoe Slovo» (1859-1866), understanding the circle of translated authors and their works, the evolution of poetic translation taking into account the change in the ideological concept of the publication. The appendix to the article provides a complete bibliography of Russian translations, as well as poems «on the motif» of works of Western European literature, published on the pages of «Russkoe Slovo».