During the First World War Samokish was a correspondent for The Russian Sun [ru], one of the most popular patriotic journals in Imperial Russia.

[3] When he returned, he and Franz Roubaud travelled to the Caucasus to create some large works for a panorama at the military history museum of Tbilisi.

[6] In 1918, after the old Academy was abolished, he moved to Yalta with the Armed Forces of South Russia then, in 1922, to Simferopol, where he provided support to artistically talented youngsters and eventually organized an art school that received official state recognition.

[4] He and his wife worked together to illustrate Dead Souls and create murals for the Tsarskoye Selo railway station.

[5] Shortly after the end of World War II, a major exhibition of his early works was held at his workshop in Kharkiv.