sentences:  His friends, particularly former classmate , encouraged him to flee to United States, but Adomas Jakštas who was deported for five years to Ustyuzhna persuaded him to stay.The Ministry of the Interior did not approve the sentence and it was reduced to a year of house arrest.His brother, caught red handed, could not avoid the punishment and served three years in the Kresty Prison and two years of exile in Bessarabia.