Impressions of a two-year tour of Russia form the backbone of his book Notes of a Pedestrian (1901).
In 1901–1904 he served as inspector of wells in Turkestan, where he studied Oriental languages and the lives of local people.
After the establishment of Soviet power in Achinsk he worked as a teacher, correspondent and director of schools in Uryanhae (Tuva).
Falsification of the novel "Ermak's Campaign" was carried out in 2011 by "Leningrad publishing house" (ЛЕНИЗДАТ).
In fact this novel is Lydia Charskaya's "Formidable squad" (Грозная дружина) published in 1909.