In autumn 1911 a famine stroke Idel-Ural. "The Autumn Wind" was devoted to the famine and hard lot of peasantry. Tuqay felt ill with malaria and unfortunately moved to cold hotel number. So, he abandoned all and moved to Öçile, to his relatives. There he passed winter, writing o recomposing his verses, sometimes sending new feuilletons to the editors. Possible, another reason of his departure was a trial of his book, published as early as in 1907. He returned in February 1912. In March 1912 his friend, Yamaşev dead of infarction and Tuqay devoted a feeling poem ("Xörmätle Xösäyen yädkâre", i.e. "Of Blessed Memory of Xösäyen") to the first Tatar Marxist.