Ivan drew from his pocket the Imperial letter, he opened it, and with supreme irony he held it up before the sightless eyes of the Czar's courier, saying, "Read, now, Michael Strogoff, read, and go and repeat at Irkutsk what you have read.
Ivan Ogareffek gutun inperiala atera zuen sakelatik, ireki, eta, isekarik krudelena eginez, begi itzalien aurrean ipini zion tsarraren mandatariari.