He collaborated with Ukrainian socialist activists and attended the founding meeting of the Russian-Ukrainian Radical Party (Rusko-Ukraińska Partia Radykalna), where he met the poet Ivan Franko.
他与乌克兰社会主义活动家合作，并参与了俄罗斯-乌克兰激进党（Rusko-Ukraińska Partia Radykalna）的建党会，在那里他与诗人伊凡·弗兰科会见。