This is a survey of results describing the parabolic subgroups of Chevalley groups over rings of various types. For Chevalley groups of classical types over an arbitrary commutative ring, a description of parabolic subgroups is obtained which may be considered definitive. Some errors in the results of V. M. Levchuk in Mat. Zametki, Volume 31, No. 4 (1982) are pointed out.