 Several members of the Eurasianists were affected by the Soviet provocational TREST operation, which had set up a fake meeting of Eurasianists in Russia that was attended by the Eurasianist leader P.N.Savitsky in 1926 (an earlier series of trips were also made two years earlier by Eurasianist member P. Arapov).The uncovering of the TREST as a Soviet provocation caused a serious morale blow to the Eurasianists and discredited their public image.