 In early 1917, General Evert proposed an attack towards Vilna, but these plans were strongly opposed among other generals, especially General Vasily Gurko and Alexander Lukomsky.Under the new plan by Alekseyev, he assigned the task of inflicting a counterattack to the 10th Army.On March 2, 1917, after the revolutionaries took over the government, Alekseyev sent Nicholas II a telegram, urging abdication, General Evert replied Alekseyev that he would give his conclusion after General Ruzsky and Brusilov answered.