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Alexander Kerensky was the Minister of Justice of the Provisional Government that was legitimised, by the manifesto written by Michail Alexandrovich Romanov, on March 3, 1917. Kerensky was with Michail, in St. Petersburg, where the writing of this manifesto was to take place. He advised Michail at that time that he could not guarantee his personal safety. When Michail left a meeting room to write his manifesto Kerensky asked him if he was going to talk to his wife. Michail smiled and replied that his wife, Natasha, was not with him. Kerensky was apparently afraid of what advice Michail's "revolutionary" wife would give. In April of 1917 Alexander Kerensky took on the job of Minister of War and Navy. With the Army and Navy in revolutionary anarchy, Kerensky was forced to use some of Michail's Caucasian soldiers as his only security when he visited the Romanian Front. These two hundred cavalry soldiers were still taking orders from their officers. Later that summer Kerensky requested that the Third Corps Cavalry, with the exclusion of the Caucasian Division, provide security for the capital of St. Petersburg. He felt it would look bad to have the capital guarded by these "foreign troops". This attitude dissolved any further trust between these soldiers and Kerensky. On September 2, 1917, without the formal declaration of a Constituent Assembly, Kerensky with the title Minister-President, proclaimed Russia a Democratic Republic. Michail Alexandrovich in his diary that morning would ask the question "Is it not all the same, whatever the shape of the government, so long as there be order and justice for everybody?". Alexander Kerensky said to the government and the soviet that he wasn't going to be the "russian Marat" when they spoke about the last Czars destiny. Kerensky wanted them out of the country, for their own safety, and when they couldn't get exile in England they were moved to Tobolsk, because it have no railroad connection, they would be safe there, for a while at least. On October 25th, the "rule without reigning" Provisional Government fell. Alexander Kerensky avoided arrest by the Soviets by being followed by a car flying the American flag and escaping from St. Petersburg. He fled to Gatchina where he was forced to flee again while dressed as a Danish sailor. The uniform and car at this time were provided by the "servants" of the Romanov family. He left Russia on a British boat in June of 1918. Kerensky fled to England and then to France, and in 1940 he moved to the United States. He wrote many books explaining his role in the revolution, and lived out his later years at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, at Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California. He died in 1970, at age 89, in New York.