"Mopra" is a peculiar interweaving of the features of a historical novel and a novel of education, a psychological novel and an adventure novel. The most pressing socio-political and moral problems are raised using historical material. One of the main motives of the novel “Uskok” is a polemic with Byron’s oriental poems, an attempt to remove the veil of attractiveness and charm from vice, and to debunk the Byronic hero.