For the first time, the famous biography of A. Maurois “Don Juan, or the Life of Byron” is published in Russian without cuts. The book, dedicated to the “enthusiastic detractor of the universe”, who disregarded public opinion and voluntarily went into exile, is organically complemented by an article by a modern philologist, as well as a unique series of portraits. Most of the illustrative material is published in our country for the first time. Thus, following with bated breath the victories and misadventures of the British Don Juan, the reader will have the opportunity to take a breath for a while and enjoy the charming images of Mary Chaworth, Caroline Lem, Augusta Lee, Teresa Guiccioli and many, many other beauties whose destinies were crossed with the fate of a romantic poet. According to one of the classics, “Byron has a force that rapidly draws us into the abyss of Satan’s fall.” However, as another classic rightly noted: