 Locker-Lampson became somewhat entangled in Russian politics at this time.He said later that he had been asked to participate in the 1916 assassination of Rasputin, and that he had a secret plan to get Tsar Nicholas II out of Russia after his abdication in March 1917.It is also alleged that in September 1917 he was involved in Kornilov's attempted coup against the provisional government of Kerensky.