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Tartar rebels under the ruthless Feofar Khan, helped by the traitor Ivan Ogareff, have invaded Siberia and cut the telegraph lines. The Tsar must warn his…
Tartar rebels under the ruthless Feofar Khan, helped by the traitor Ivan Ogareff, have invaded Siberia and cut the telegraph lines. The Tsar must warn his brother, the Grand Duke, besieged in the city of Irkutsk, that Ogareff is coming to betray him, and he chooses Michael Strogoff, a young courier of extraordinary strength and courage, who must cross more than five thousand kilometres of Siberia in disguise, through rivers, forests and enemy armies, together with a brave young woman, Nadia, and two quarrelling foreign journalists.
Context and significance
Jules Verne published the novel in 1876. Though it has no science fiction, it is one of his most exciting adventures and was a huge success on the stage; the scene in which Strogoff is condemned to be blinded with a red-hot blade is a classic of suspense. Read Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, and see his life.
About the author
Jules Verne (1828–1905) grew up in the port city of Nantes, watching ships leave for distant lands. Sent to Paris to study law, he wrote for the theatre instead, until the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel accepted Five Weeks in a Balloon in 1863 and signed him for a series of 'extraordinary voyages' that lasted the rest of his life.
In more than sixty novels he took readers under the sea, to the Moon and around the world, mixing adventure with real science and geography. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days made him one of the most translated authors in history and inspired generations of scientists and explorers.