MICHAEL STROGOFF
JULIO VERNE
Sinopsis de MICHAEL STROGOFF
Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar (French: Michel Strogoff) is a novel written by Jules Verne in 1876. Michael Strogoff, a 30-year-old native of Omsk, is a courier for Tsar Alexander II of Russia. The Tartar Khan (prince), Feofar Khan, incites a rebellion and separates the Russian Far East from the mainland, severing telegraph lines. Rebels encircle Irkutsk, where the local governor, a brother of the Tsar, is making a last stand. Strogoff is sent to Irkutsk to warn the governor about the traitor Ivan Ogareff, a former colonel, who was once demoted and exiled and now seeks revenge against the imperial family. He intends to destroy Irkutsk by setting fire to the huge oil storage tanks on the banks of the Angara River.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 Madel...
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El héroe epónimo es uno de los Dragones del ejército del Zar Imperial y tiene la misión de entregar personalmente un mensaje, para lo cual se enfrenta al clima invernal de la estepa, a los enemigos que lo acechan para apoderarse del mensaje del Zar, hasta hay una pelea mano a mano con un oso y castigos discapacitantes, sin que falte alguna historia de amor. Una apasionante historia juvenil, con desenlaces sorprendentes.
