The Karabakh Folklore volume was written for a special publication — "A Collection of Turkish-Tatar Dialects" that Radlov was organizing. After the academician died, his successor the famous Orientalist, Professor A. N. Samoylovich studied the short research and praised it in an article. But because of World War I, provocations brought on by Armenian Dashnaks and Russian Bolsheviks against Azerbaijan in the Caucasus, finally Azerbaijan's was forced to become part of the Soviet Union. Consequently, Jeyhun's scientific work about this region could not be published.