Russians and Tartars

Michael Strogoff

by Jules VERNE (1828 - 1905)

This is the account of the perilous mission of Michael Strogoff, courier for Czar Alexander II, who is sent from Moscow to the besieged city of Irkutsk, where the governor, brother of the Czar, has taken his last stand against a Tartar rebellion led by the fearsome Feofar-Khan. When telegraph lines are cut between the Russian Far East and the mainland, Strogoff must make his way through hostile territory to warn the governor of the return of the traitor Ivan Ogareff, a disgraced former officer who seeks vengeance against the Tsar’s family by the destruction of Irkutsk. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)

Listen next episodes of Michael Strogoff:
A Final Effort , A Friend on the Highway , A Hare Crosses the Road , A Storm in the Ural Mountains , A Tartar Camp , Baikal and Angara , Between Two Banks , Blow For Blow , Brother and Sister , Conclusion , Correspondents in Trouble , Day and Night in a Tarantass , Duty Before Everything , From Moscow to Nijni-Novgorod , Going Down the Volga , Going Up the Kama , In the Steppe , Irkutsk , "Look While You May!" , Michael Strogoff Meets the Czar , Mother and Son , Provocation , The Czar's Courier , The Marshes of the Baraba , The Night of the Fifth of October , The Passage of the Yenisei , The Rivals , The Triumphal Entry , The Two Announcements , Travelers in Distress