Mr. B. L. Brasol, former District Attorney of Petrograd, will speak on the present plight of soviet Russia at 8 o'clock next Tuesday evening in the Living Room of the Union. He will discuss in particular the changes that his native country has undergone in the course of the last six years.

Mr. Brasol was born in the Government of Poltava, Russia, of Russian parents. After his graduation in 1908 from the University of Petrograd with the degree of Bachelor of Law, he immediately entered the Department of Justice of the Russian Government, and in 1910 was made Assistant District Attorney at Petrograd. He served in this capacity and subsequently as District Attorney in various other Russian cities.

At the outbreak of the Great War Mr. Brasol enlisted in the Russian Guards as a volunteer with the rank of Second Lieutenant, and fought in the successful campaign against the Austro-German armies in Galicia. After a long period of arduous fighting, in which his health suffered severely, he was appointed Military Prosecuting Attorney in charge of the trial of General Souschomlimor, former Russian Minister. At the conclusion of this trial, at which the General was convicted of treason and sentenced to imprisonment for life, Lieutenant Brasol was sent by the Russian Government to England. He remained there nine weeks, and sailed for America in August 1916, as one of the four members of the Anglo-Russian Committee which was in supreme control of all orders for munitions of war placed by Russia in the American market with British funds.

He was obliged to resign from these commissions when the Russian Empire collapsed in the spring of 1917, but was immediately employed by the United States Government for some 18 months in the War Trade Board.