The article comprises some results obtained during the first year of the “Development and Launching of Open Access Online Digital Tools for Comparative Thesaurus Analysis of Russian Translations of W. Shakespeare’s Works” project (www.shakespearecorpus.ru) supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (no. 17-04-12038в). The author specifies the main opportunities provided by the “Version Variation Visualization” platform using the case of Russian translations of Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida” made in the 20th–21st centuries by A. M. Fedorov, L. S. Nekora, T. G. Gnedich and A. V. Floria.