 Complete the following phrase:  Alantas was the eldest of four children of a family of Lithuanian farmers in Sidabravas. Alantas father briefly worked in the United States and managed to purchase of land from a former manor in near Radviliškis. His brother became a theater director. Alantas was taught by a daraktorius, a travelling Lithuanian teacher educating pupils in secret during the Lithuanian press ban. In 19121923, Alantas studied at the Šiauliai Gymnasium, with a half-year break in 1919 when he volunteered for the Lithuanian Army to fight the West Russian Volunteer Army in the 