On 21 November 1839, at a meeting of the Polish Literary Society in Paris, he read the first report on Belarusian ethnography and folklore, and in 1840, on the basis of his own lectures, published the book “Belarus”.

[3] In 1846 Rypinski moved to London, where he engaged in publishing and creative activities, teaching languages, mathematics and drawing - becoming “one of the most versatile Belarusian expatriates living in England during the 19th century”.

In 1852 he founded a printing house in Tottenham, London where he published collections of his Polish poems "Poetic Works" (1853) and "Sergeant-Philosopher" (1854).

Rypinski abandoned his application for naturalisation as a British subject and returned to his family's Kukaviačyna estate where he lived under police surveillance.

He was also the first author and publisher to use the “short u” (Ŭ) letter in the Belarusian language (Latin alphabet) - until then there had been no single standard of how that sound should be conveyed in writing.