The best and most important of his translations from Russian and Ukrainian are: "Dead Souls" and "Taras Bulba" by Nikolai Gogol, "The Kreutzer Sonata" and "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy (with collaborator Okica Gluščević) "Oblomov" by Ivan Goncharov, and other works by Alexander Ostrovsky, Ignaty Potapenko, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Alexander Pushkin, Mariya Vilinska (better known as Marko Vovchok, her "nom de plumme"), Nikolai Schedrin, Vsevolod Garshin, Anton Chekhov, Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Maksim Gorky and writer-painter Nikolai Leykin. From the French he had translated some of the works of Balzac, Prosper Mérimée's Colomba, Jules Verne's "Une Fantaisie du Docteur Ox" ("Doktor Oks i njegova posla"), Ludovic Halévy, Victorien Sardou, Maurice Maeterlinck ("Princess Maleine"), Alphonse Daudet ("Tartarin de Tarascon" and "Le Nabab"), Erckmann-Chatrian ("Hugues-le-loup", "Les Deux Frères", and "L'Invasion ou le Fou Yégof"), Émile Augier ("Le Fils de Giboyer" and "La pierre de touche"), Jules Sandeau, Eugène Scribe, Edouard Foussier, Eugène Marin Labiche, Henri Meilhac, Georges Feydeau and others. He also translated the works of American authors, particularly Mark Twain. He made the first Serbian translation of a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.