In summer 1912 he published his last book, "The Mental Food", a collection of 43 verses and one poem. But then his health deteriorated. In spite of this, he found energy to write for the new literature magazine "Añ" and the democratic newspaper "Qoyaş" ("The Sun"), edited by Fatix Ämirxan. As Ämirxan was paralyzed, they stayed in neighboring rooms of the Amur Hotel, where the editorial board was situated. In the first days of 1913 he wrote "The Frost", a witty poem depicting how Kazaners of different social classes behave during frost. The next notable poem was devoted to the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. The poem was rather panegyrical, as was the vulgar-sociological critique of the early 1920s, based on this poem, proclaimed Tuqay to be a pan-Islamist and Tsarist. However, the end of the verse is written not about Tsar's dynasty, but about internationalism within Russian and eternal friendship of Tatars and Russians.