Director of the Antanas and Jonas Juška Ethnic Culture Museum, Artūras Sniečkus, said that priest Juozas Montvila was taking Juška's first compilation of Lithuanian songs to America for publication. Juška was not able to publish the book himself in Kazan as he died there soon after his arrival.
In April 1912, Montvila decided to go to America and boarded the Titanic. A century after the Titanic tragedy, Lithuanian museologists received news that a bag with Lithuanian publications, including Juška's book, was retrieved from the Titanic.
