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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: self out of the beaten track, and not again take to the
Irkutsk road until in the neighborhood of Krasnoiarsk.
From that place, if he were quick, he hoped to find the way
still open, and he intended to go through the Lake Baikal
provinces in a southeasterly direction.
Michael began by going eastward. By following the
course of the Obi two versts further, he reached a pictur-
esque little town lying on a small hill. A few churches,
with Byzantine cupolas colored green and gold, stood up
against the gray sky. This is Kolyvan, where the officers
and people employed at Kamsk and other towns take refuge
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