[2] In 1913, his articles "The Main Enemy – Ignorance", "Unfortunately, He Is Also an Intellectual" (Арыгущи интеллигент), and "Scenes from the Lives of North Caucasian Muslims" were published in Musul’manskaya Gazeta in St. Petersburg.
Eventually, he became one of the founders of the Mountain Peoples (Adyghe and other locals) Section of the Kuban-Black Sea Oblast Revolutionary Committee and served as its secretary.
[2] During this period, he wrote and published the short stories "The Lonely Man" (шъхьэзакъу) and "Fatma’s Joy" in three languages: Adyghe, Russian, and Ukrainian.
For example, his drama "Koch'as" (Къок1ас), the long story "The Lonely Man" (Шъхьэзакъу), and the poeticized folktale "The Rabbit’s Funeral Feast" (Тхьак1умк1ахьым ихьадэ1ус) were all based on folklore.
Tsey explored the theme of the Circassian exile through the character of Tl'imaf (Л1ымаф) in "The Lonely Man", in his novel "Hantsık'u-Hace" (Хьанц1ык1у-Хьаджэ), and in his 1928 poem "Yahu" (Жъэу).