from March to December 1911 (i. e. during Persian Revolution, Moroccan Crisis and Tripolitanian War) when Sergei Dmitryevich Sazonov fell ill[5], in November/December 1916 (during World War I) after Boris Vladimirovich Stürmer was dismissed[6][7] and before Nikolai Nikolayevich Pokrovsky was appointed (in December Neratov became a member of the State Council, too[4][8]) in February/March 1917 (after the February Revolution) when Pokrovsky resigned and before Pavel Nikolayevich Milyukov was appointed in October/November 1917 (following the October Revolution) when Mikhail Ivanovich Tereshchenko was arrested temporarily