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Li Sao, the representative work of Chinese romantic poet Qu Yuan, is invaluable and unique in the garden of Chinese classics. It has not only been enormously influential to Chinese literature and culture, but also gained its fame worldwide, repeatedly translated by admiring Sinologists into Russian, English, French and many other foreign languages. With an eye to the promotion of the Chinese culture soft power, this paper investigates the charm of Li Sao by comparing four Russian versions of the book. The author of the article highlights the importance of Skopos theory. It assists in preserving Chinese cultural heritage, and interpreting it in a correct way. Therefore, it is vital to consider the peculiarities of Chinese and Russian poetic systems, building mutual understanding.