# Michael Strogoff — Character guide

> Key figures in Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne.

- [Michael Strogoff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/michael_strogoff_se/characters/michael_strogoff.md): Michael Strogoff belongs to the Czar's special corps of couriers, a man whose defining quality is that he is 'a fulfiller of orders.' Raised by a bear-hunting father on the steppes near Omsk, he has a mother, old Marfa, 
- [Nadia Fedor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/michael_strogoff_se/characters/nadia.md): Nadia Fedor is the daughter of Wassili Fedor, a Riga physician exiled to Siberia for ties to a secret society; her mother has just died, and she is determined to rejoin him despite the Tartar invasion. When bureaucratic 
- [Ivan Ogareff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/michael_strogoff_se/characters/ivan_ogareff.md): Ivan Ogareff has thrown in with Feofar-Khan's Tartar invasion, and his plan turns on a single audacious impersonation: he will present himself at Irkutsk as the Czar's courier, Michael Strogoff, bearing the genuine imper
- [Alcide Jolivet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/michael_strogoff_se/characters/alcide_jolivet.md): Alcide Jolivet is one of two foreign correspondents racing toward the front, and he treats the whole campaign as both a story and a running joke at Harry Blount's expense. He notices what Blount does not — the silent you
- [Harry Blount](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/michael_strogoff_se/characters/harry_blount.md): Harry Blount is Alcide Jolivet's professional rival, an English correspondent whose careful habits — including a proper meal, however rushed the schedule — stand in comic contrast to his French colleague's improvisation.
- [Marfa Strogoff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/michael_strogoff_se/characters/marfa_strogoff.md): Old Marfa Strogoff still lives in the house at Omsk where she and the huntsman Peter raised their son, and she has never been willing to leave it. Michael, absent three years on imperial service, has always spent his fur
- [Sangarre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/michael_strogoff_se/characters/sangarre.md): Sangarre moves among the gypsy dancers and singers who trail the Nizhny Novgorod fair, yet she and the old Bohemian keep their people hidden below deck by night — conduct Michael Strogoff finds wholly unlike their race. 
- [Wassili Fedor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/michael_strogoff_se/characters/wassili_fedor.md): Wassili Fedor lives under Siberian banishment in Irkutsk, the far eastern city that the Tartar invasion now threatens to swallow. His exile has already cost his family everything familiar, and it is his peril that sends 
- [Feofar-Khan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/michael_strogoff_se/characters/feofar_khan.md): Feofar-Khan rules Bokhara and commands the invasion that has already made communication between Siberia and the empire nearly impossible by the time Michael Strogoff reaches the Volga. His advancing armies — and the rene
- [Nicholas Pigassof](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/michael_strogoff_se/characters/nicholas_pigassof.md): A fellow traveler who befriends Michael and Nadia on the road.
- [General Kissoff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/michael_strogoff_se/characters/general_kissoff.md): A Russian general and aide to the Czar.
- [The Grand Duke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/michael_strogoff_se/characters/grand_duke.md): The Czar's brother and governor of Irkutsk, besieged by Tartars.
- [Nicholas Korpanoff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/michael_strogoff_se/characters/nicholas_korpanoff.md): A young Russian officer and friend of Michael Strogoff.
- [General Voranzoff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/michael_strogoff_se/characters/general_voranzoff.md): A Russian general commanding forces against the Tartars.

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