Michael Strogoff, a courier of the Tsar, embarks on an arduous and adventurous journey across Russia. The Tsar entrusts him with delivering a message to his brother in Irkutsk, Siberia, which is threatened by a traitor and an invading Tartar army. The novel provides an exciting portrayal of 19th-century Russia.

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I: A Fête at the New Palace

II: Russians and Tartars

III: Michael Strogoff Meets the Czar

IV: From Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod

V: The Two Announcements

VI: Brother and Sister

VII: Going Down the Volga

VIII: Going Up the Kama

IX: Day and Night in a Tarantass

X: A Storm in the Ural Mountains

XI: Travelers in Distress

XII: Provocation

XIII: Duty Before Everything

XIV: Mother and Son

XV: The Marshes of the Baraba

XVI: A Final Effort

XVII: The Rivals

Part I

I: A Tartar Camp

II: Correspondents in Trouble

III: Blow for Blow

IV: The Triumphal Entry

V: “Look While You May!”

VI: A Friend on the Highway

VII: The Passage of the Yenisey

VIII: A Hare Crosses the Road

IX: In the Steppe

X: Baikal and Angara

XI: Between Two Banks

XII: Irkutsk

XIII: The Czar’s Courier

XIV: The Night of the Fifth of October

XV: Conclusion

Part II

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