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A Guide to Michael Strogoff 5
ested in Nadia. At Nijni-Novgorod Zangarra meets Ogareff at a gypsy camp. Rather summarily he sends her back with his aide, Vassily, to take the boat to Omsk and get Strogoff' s papers en route.
At the government bureau Strogoff finds Nadia in tears. She must get to her father, who is ill at Omsk, but officials have denied her a passport. Strogoff arranges with the police to allow his "sister" to accompany him.
On the boat Strogoff rescues Zangarra from a bear which has escaped from a troupe of entertainers. Zangarra sends for him to come to her cabin in order to thank him. Vassily wants to assassinate him to get the papers, but Zangarra hesitates to kill the man who has just saved her life. She will get the plans later by strategy.
Strogoff, suspicious, slips off the boat with Nadia at the next landing and proceeds by carriage. At a post house a traveler, Ogareff, disputes Strogoff's right to the only available horses. Neither knows the identity of the other. For the safety of his mission Strogoff refuses to fight over the horses — nor over a cut from Ogareff's whip.
Strogoff and Nadia, continuing their journey in a peasant cart, are being ferried across the river near Omsk when a Tartar band attacks them. Strogoff, badly wounded, is knocked overboard. Nadia is taken prisoner. A sheepherder pulls Strogoff unconscious from the river. When he comes to after several days he starts feverishly for Omsk.
At Omsk, nowi in the hands of the Tartars, Ogareff, furious at Zangarra and Vassily for letting Strogoff escape them, orders a thorough search of the city. Strogoff, going to an inn to secure a horse, is joyfully recognized by his mother, who lives in the town. He denies he is her son. But soldiers try to seize him. He escapes. The Tartars take his mother prisoner. His pursuers gain on Strogoff. He burns the military plans and keeps only the letter to the^ Grand Duke. He is captured.
Ogareff gives Zangarra a beautiful string of pearls, telling her she must identify Strogoff among the prisoners. She denies that he is there. Ogareff orders Strogoff's mother to be flogged. Strogoff, unable to witness this sight, rushes to her defense.
Ogareff puts Zangarra on a horse. In ten minutes his soldiers will have orders to shoot her on sight. She delays to find that Ogareff intends to blind Michael. She gives the executioner the pearls as a bribe to feign executing the sentence.
Thinking him blind, Ogareff sets Strogoff free. Zangarra overtakes him as Nadia leads him away. She has secured two horses for them. After they have gone she attempts to mount her own horse but falls, shot by Vassily.
Ogareff presents himself to the Grand Duke at Irkutsk as Michael Strogoff. He gives false information as to the Tartar