Gulpaygani made his livelihood as the editor of the Russian imperial government’s Persian magazine

It was only twenty years later, in the aftermath of the Russian revolution in 1917, that Mirza Abu al-Fazl’s vision for a Baha’i magazine was realized through the efforts of his nephew, Sayyid Mahdi Gulpayigani. Sayyid Mahdi made his livelihood as the editor of the Russian imperial government’s Persian magazine, Majmu‘ah-i Mavara-yi Bahr-i Khizir.

(Farzin Vejdani, Transnational Baha’i Print Culture: Community Formation and Religious Authority, 1890–1921, Journal of Religious History, Vol. 36, No. 4, December 2012)