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their trial took place; and then it turned out to be a 

 farce, for every one of the arrested men was released. 



It is interesting to note that most of these young 

 students of the "Self-Defence League" became in after 

 years well-known scientists and social workers. Alex- 

 ander Krasilchek, the widely-known entomologist; 

 Vladimir Chavkin, the bacteriologist; Kalmenowitz, 

 who became later a member of the first Russian Duma ; 

 the respected physician, Kostia Puritz; and Lyova 

 Albert, lawyer, the same youth with whom my husband 

 became so friendly in Berdiansk. Of the last-named 

 I must speak a little further. 



In 1881, when a young man of twenty-seven, Albert 

 conceived and put into execution a brilliant and hu- 

 mane plan, which in this country, many years later, 

 became well known as the "Big Brother" movement. 

 He arranged with local authorities to be notified when 

 a boy was discharged from the penitentiary, and Albert 

 then took him in charge. He housed, fed and clothed 

 him, taught him a trade, and showed him that one 

 crime does not make a criminal, and that it was pos- 

 sible to save him, both for himself and for the com- 

 munity. 



He arranged it in this way. In a set of rooms which 

 his mother portioned off for him in her large apart- 

 ment house, he opened a vocational school. He fitted 

 up the place with the proper accommodations, so that 

 his charges could live there, free of all expense, while 

 they were getting their training. Then he engaged 



