Unlike some of Vernes other famous novels, it is not science fiction, but a scientific phenomenon is a plot device. Some critics consider it one of Vernes best books. One day she defends her only friend Peter from the relentless attacks of the football team and its team captain Nick Lewis. Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar is a novel written by Jules Verne in 1876. Michael, his mother and Nadia are eventually taken prisoner by the Tartar forces. Eva Shaw has spent 17 years of her life in the shadows- without holding anyone close to truly know the true Eva. A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines.On the way he encounters adventures and colorful characters.
He is supposed to travel under a false identity, but he is discovered by the Tartars when he meets his mother in their home city of Omsk. Blount and Jolivet tend to follow the same route as Michael, separating and meeting again all the way through Siberia. On his way to Irkutsk, Strogoff meets Nadia Fedor, daughter of an exiled political prisoner, Basil Fedor, who has been granted permission to join her father at his exile in Irkutsk, the English war correspondent Harry Blount of the Daily Telegraph and Alcide Jolivet, a Frenchman reporting for his 'cousin Madeleine'. He intends to destroy Irkutsk by setting fire to the huge oil storage tanks on the banks of the Angara River. Michael Strogoff : a courier of the Czar. Ogareff, a former colonel, was once demoted and exiled and now seeks revenge against the royal family. Strogoff is sent to Irkutsk to warn the governor about the traitor Ivan Ogareff. Rebels encircle Irkutsk, where the local governor, brother of the Tsar, is making a last stand. The Tartar Khan, Feofar Khan, incites a rebellion and separates the Russion Far East from the mainland, severing telegraph lines. Michael Strogoff, a 30-year-old native of Omsk, is a courier for Tsar Alexander II of Russia.
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