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. <sep>, Pronoun: his <sep>, A: Karazin <sep>, B: Anthony W. Sariti