The earlier, entitled The Protocols and World Revolution, associated with Boris Brasol and published by Small, Maynard and Company.
Her father Vladimir Karpovich Debogory-Mokriyevich (May 24, 1848 - Nov. 2, 1926) had been imprisoned under the tsarist government for revolutionary activities.
He was a well-known Russian Revolutionary-Narodnik (Populist), who escaped from prison in Siberia and later married her mother Julie Gortynsky (1860 -1933?)
(The Gortynsky family produced many well educated women: Julie's cousin, Maria Gortynsky-Pavlova (1854 - 1938), was the first Russian female professor of Paleontology at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR; another cousin, Olga Gortynsky (1855 - 1903), was among the first Russian women licensed to practice as a Doctor of Medicine.)
Houghton engaged her as his personal and investigative assistant for nine months, and subsequently claimed that no public funds were used for her services.