![]() 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 Russian 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. Davidow wrote, "Jules Verne has written no better book than this, in fact it is deservedly ranked as one of the most thrilling tales ever written." Unlike some of Verne's other famous novels, it is not science fiction, but a scientific phenomenon is a plot device. ![]() Davidow, writing from Reading, Pennsylvania, in his 1937 introduction to The Spencer Press reprint as a volume in its "Classic Romances of Literature" series consider it one of Verne's best books. + Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar (French: Michel Strogoff) is a novel written by Jules Verne in 1876. ![]()
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