![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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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