Pavel Malyantovich

Another brother, Vsevolod Nikolayevich (1885–1949), was also a lawyer, and lived in emigration in France after the civil war, where he was a journalist.His grandson Kirill Georgievich was a veteran of World War II and a famous Soviet animator who directs cartoons about Dunno and other subjects.In 1890 he was imprisoned for three months in a case charging him with participation in a criminal association brought by the Smolensk Gendarme Office.From 1904 to 1905 he participated in the trial of Nikolay Bauman, Elena Stasova and other members of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.During the revolution of 1905–1907, he defended members of the Saint Petersburg Soviet of Workers' Deputies (Leon Trotsky was involved in this process) and participants in the uprising on the cruiser Memory of Azov (1906), as well as more than a hundred other political cases.He participated in the social democratic movement, hesitated between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks (he was not officially a member of the party), and was constantly under police surveillance.In 1905 his apartment was a meeting place for the Moscow Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, whose members he defended at the 1909 trial.He won the civil action brought by the heirs of Savva Morozov, who challenged his will which bequeathed 100 thousand rubles to Maria Andreyeva for transfer to the Bolshevik party.In September 1917, at the suggestion of Alexander Kerensky, Malyantovich became Minister of Justice of the Provisional Government (fourth composition).The writer Ivan Bunin, who met with him, noted in his diary on 12 March 1918 that Malyantovich did not perceive the events as a tragedy: "And this is still a holiday, everything from them is like water.In September 1921, the People's Commissars of Education and Justice Anatoly Lunacharsky and Dmitry Kursky (who had been Malyantovich's colleague in political defense) summoned him to Moscow, where he served as legal adviser on the presidium of the Supreme Council of National Economy.He joined the Moscow Board of Defenders, which he headed for some time, and was a member of the first staff of the Presidium of the All-Russian Lawyers Association.