sentences:  Powerless, Krymov could only watch in his train compartment as Cossacks in large numbers defected to the Soviet side.On 30 August he agreed to travel with a government representative to Petrograd, and on 31 August he met with Kerensky, where he tried to explain that he had only brought his troops in an attempt to defend the government, but Kerensky ordered him to trial by military court.Despondent after the meeting with Kerensky, Krymov left for a friend's apartment, where he was heard saying