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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: in the provinces of the Amoor and Lake Baikal. At the
same time, the regiments from Perm and Nijni-Novgorod,
and the Cossacks from the frontier, are advancing by forced
marches towards the Ural Mountains; but some weeks must
pass before they can attack the Tartars."
"And your majesty's brother, his Highness the Grand
Duke, is now isolated in the government of Irkutsk, and
is no longer in direct communication with Moscow?"
"That is so."
"But by the last dispatches, he must know what measures
have been taken by your majesty, and what help he may
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