For his military service he was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir and a gold sword. In 1874-1879 he worked with a scientific expedition exploring the Central Asia. In 1885-1886 Karazin travels to India together with Ivan Minaev. He also travelled to Egypt, Italy, Switzerland and many other exotic places. After his retirement from military service, Karazin wrote many adventure and ethnographic stories and novels: ``** ******* *********'' (1875; ``In the Distant Confines,'' tr. Anthony W. Sariti, AuthorHouse, 2007) ``* ********* ****'' (In the gunpowder smoke, 1878) ``* *******'' (In the reeds, 1879) ``Varvara Lepko and her family'' (1879); ``*******'' (Tigress); ``From Orenburg to Tashkent'' (1886); ``Khiva Expedition'' (1882); etc. The Two-Legged Wolf, English translation, 1894, from Archive.org The most popular was his children's book, Cranes Flying South, telling the story of a crane migrating from the Ostashkov swamps to the Upper Nile.
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Anthony W. Sariti