He delivered the Kadets' parliamentary interpellation on April 9, 1912 after the Lena massacre,[2] denouncing what he described as the government's illegal interference in an economic dispute between labor and capital on the side of the latter.

[3] On June 11, 1915 he resigned from the Central Committee over what he saw as the majority's willingness to give the government a blank check during World War I.

At the same time, convinced that Emperor Nicholas II and his court were leading the country down the road to a military defeat and revolution, Nekrasov began plotting with former Duma Chairman Octobrist Alexander Guchkov, Kerensky, Aleksandr Konovalov and industrialist Mikhail Tereshchenko to force Nicholas to abdicate.

In late June Nekrasov was one of the Provisional Government's representatives at the negotiations with the Ukrainian Rada, which granted Ukraine a measure of autonomy within Russia.

The agreement was adamantly opposed by the Kadet leadership, which wanted to postpone any decisions regarding ethnic minorities until the convocation of the Russian Constituent Assembly.

On September 17 (New Style from this point on) Nekrasov was appointed Governor-General of Finland after Mikhail Aleksandrovich Stakhovich quit the post.

On the morning of November 7, Nekrasov, on his way to Saint Petersburg to hand over the proposal to Kerensky, found out that the Provisional Government had been overthrown by the Bolsheviks during the October Revolution.