:Nikolay Karazin

Nikolay Karazin was born to a family of enlightenment scientists. His grand father Vasily Karazin was a Serbian-born Russian enlightenment intellectual, inventor, and the founder of Kharkiv University. His father Nikolay Vasilivech Karazin was an inventor trying to market a liquid smoke for the "instant smoking" of meats.[http://www.koptilka.ru/file_139.shtml Homepage of the modern Liquid Smoke company] {{in lang|ru}}

Nikolay Karazin graduated from the Moscow cadet school in 1862. In 1865–1867 he studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg.

As a military officer he participated in the campaign against the January Uprising in Poland (1864), and the military campaigns in Turkestan (1864–1870). In 1871 he retired from the military service but as a military correspondent and illustrator he took part in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878 with Serbian and Russian armies. For his military service he was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir and a gold sword. From 1874-1879 he worked on a scientific expedition exploring the Central Asia.[http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/bio_k/karazin_nn.html Collection of biographies on hrono.ru] {{in lang|ru}} material In 1885-1886 Karazin travelled to India together with Ivan Minaev.[http://www.vostlit.info/Texts/Dokumenty/Suedostasien/XIX/1880-1900/Minaev/pred.htm Biography of Ivan Minaev] He also travelled to Egypt, Italy, Switzerland and many other exotic places.[http://www.booksite.ru/fulltext/5us/tyu/zhna/5.htm E.A. Vorotyntseva From the history of the Culture] {{in lang|ru}}

File:Karazin - Entry of Russian troops into Samarkand 1868.jpg in 1868]]

After his retirement from military service, Karazin wrote many adventure and ethnographic stories and novels:

• "На далеких окрайнахъ" (1875; "In the Distant Confines," tr. Anthony W. Sariti, AuthorHouse, 2007)
• "В пороховом дыму" (In the gunpowder smoke, 1878)
• "В камышах" (In the reeds, 1879)
• "Varvara Lepko and her family" (1879);
• "Тигрица" (Tigress);
• "From Orenburg to Tashkent" (1886);
• "Khiva Expedition" (1882); etc.
• The Two-Legged Wolf, English translation, 1894, [https://archive.org/details/twoleggedwolfrom00karaiala 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. The book combined an interesting story, geographic descriptions of the places the crane flew and illustrations by the author.[http://feb-web.ru/feb/litenc/encyclop/le5/le5-1071.htm Biography] {{in lang|ru}}

Later Karazin became known mostly as a painter and illustrator. He painted many large canvases devoted to battles and especially military actions in Turkestan. He was a prolific book illustrator and one of the most notable authors of the postcards. In 1902 he participated in the first (rejected by the government) project of the Moscow Metro and produced many paintings showing his vision of the project.[http://www.mosmetro.ru/pages/page_0.php?id_page=527 History of Moscow Metro] {{in lang|ru}} In 1904 Karazin became an academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts.

He died in 1908 in Gatchina.

Image:Karazin brushwood.jpg|Collecting brushwood in winter, 1888

Image:Karazin - Entry of Russian troops into Samarkand 1868.jpg|Russian troops taking Samarkand

Image:KarazinNN HivinskiyPohodGRM.jpg|Khiva expedition of 1873. Russian troops crossing the death sands to the wells of Adam-Krylgan, 1888

Image:KarazinNN PereprTurkOtrARTM.jpg|Russian troops crossing Amu Darya in 1873, 1889,

Image:Karazin north south.jpg|Cover of Karazin's book From North to South: memoirs of an old crane, 1899

Image:Karazin Metro1.jpg|Project of Moscow Metro, 1902

Image:Karazin Metro 2.jpg|Project of Moscow Metro, 1902

Image:Karazin Metro 3.jpg|Project of Moscow Metro, 1902

Image:KarazinN Moskva.jpg|Moscow, postcard

Image:KarazinN Postcard.jpg|Postcard

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• {{Cite book |last=Nagayevskaya |first=Yelena V.|author-link=:ru:Нагаевская, Елена Варнавовна |title=Русское искусство: очерки о жизни и творчестве художников. Вторая половина девятнадцатого века |publisher=Iskusstvo |year=1971 |editor-last=Leonov |editor-first=Alexei I. |volume=2 |location=Moscow |pages=357–368 |language=ru |chapter=Николай Николаевич Каразин |oclc=71538004}}
• {{cite book|last=Shestimirov|first=Aleksandr A.|date=2004|title=Забытые имена: русская живопись XIX века|language=ru|location=Moscow|publisher=Belyi gorod|pages=216–225|isbn=5-7793-0832-2|oclc=315220468}}

• [http://www.canislupus.ru/story/067.php N. Karazin Wolf ambush] {{in lang|ru}}

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