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Alekseev was also a Februaryist, without his participation they could not have overthrown the autocracy so easily. But, like Guchkov, he did not want the collapse of the army and Russia, so he protested against the "Declaration", and on June 4 he was removed. Brusilov was appointed supreme, hoping for his popularity among the troops.

Alexander Guchkov, the Russian minister of war in the Russian Provision Government after Tsar Nicholas II abdicated in March 1917, told the British military attache General Alfred Knox that “the extreme element consists of Jews and imbeciles.”

Nicholas II (Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov; [d] 18 May [ O.S. 6 May] 1868 – 17 July 1918) or Nikolai II was the last Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917.

The Tsar directed the royal train, stopped on March 14 by a group of revolutionaries at Malaya Vishera, back to Petrograd. When the Tsar finally arrived at in Pskov, the Army Chief Ruzsky and the Duma deputees Guchkov and Shulgin suggested in unison that he abdicate the throne.

Alexander Guchkov, a Chairman of the Duma, once officially charged Rasputin of being a member of this sect. This had the potential to turn into a very large and highly publicised scandal, and the Tsar had to call for investigations into this "skeleton in the closet."

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Aleksandr Guchkov was the leader of the Octobrist Party during the meetings of the Duma. This party recognised the October Manifesto as a very good foundation for the constitutional monarchy they wished to see enshrined in the Russian Empire and were seen as the more moderate of liberal parties.