# Wassili Fedor — Michael Strogoff character guide

> Wassili Fedor in Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Fedor

**First appearance:** 0028-part-ii-xii-irkutsk

## Snapshot

Nadia's father, a political exile in Irkutsk whose fate pulls his daughter across a continent of rebellion and ice.

## Who they are

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 Nadia traveling alone toward a besieged frontier no woman should cross. Though he remains offstage through much of the journey, his danger is the quiet engine behind his daughter's courage — and behind the urgency that binds her fate to Michael Strogoff's.

## In the story

### [Going Up the Kama](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/michael_strogoff_se/chapters/part-i-viii-going-up-the-kama)

Nadia's father, an exiled physician in Irkutsk; mentioned in Nadia's backstory.

### [Between Two Banks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/michael_strogoff_se/chapters/part-ii-xi-between-two-banks)

Mentioned in Nadia's thoughts as her exiled father in Irkutsk.

### [Irkutsk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/michael_strogoff_se/chapters/part-ii-xii-irkutsk)

Nadia's father, an exile in Irkutsk, is pardoned by the Grand Duke and made captain of the exile corps.

### [XIII: The Czar’s Courier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/michael_strogoff_se/chapters/part-ii-xiii-the-czar-s-courier)

Seeks news of his daughter Nadia from the false courier; Ogareff cruelly withholds reassurance, crushing his hopes.

### [The Night of the Fifth of October](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/michael_strogoff_se/chapters/part-ii-xiv-the-night-of-the-fifth-of-october)

Commands a corps stationed in the north of the town, with orders to respond to the greatest danger.

### [Conclusion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/michael_strogoff_se/chapters/part-ii-xv-conclusion)

Reunited with his daughter Nadia; his exile is ended by the Grand Duke. He blesses the marriage of Michael and Nadia.

## Links

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