"Byron" is a biographical novel about the life of the English Romantic poet George Gordon Byron. The poet’s complex fate, the feeling that catastrophe exists both in the world and inside the person himself, and disappointment with reality are reflected in his work. He created the type of the “Byronic” introspective hero: a disillusioned rebellious individualist—lonely, misunderstood sufferer—challenging both the entire order of the world and God. Byron’s work is an important stage in the spiritual development of European society and literature, including Russian.