On 27 November, the new Minister of the Interior A.F.Trepov visited the Tsar at Stavka. He offered his resignation, citing the impossibility of governing with Protopopov. He reminded the Tsar that Protopopov's dismissal was a condition of his accepting the Presidency of the Council .The Tsar refused his request. Protopopov held his position until the Tsar abdicated.

On the Romanian Front, Kühne's German forces crossed the Aluta River, while von Mackensen's troops occupied Alexandria.

In the Black Sea, Russian minelayers laid 440 mines off Varna on the Bulgarian coast.

In North Persia, the Russians were driving the Turks back in Persia.

On 28 November, on the Romanian Front, the Russian 9th Army advanced in the Carpathians near Jablonitza Pass and east of Kirlibaba towards Czik-Szereda. As the Germans approached, the Romanian government fled Bucharest for Jasi in northeast Romania. Bulgarian troops occupied Giurevo on the Danube River.

Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich, having just returned from London, sent a note to the Tsar stating that King George V was very upset about reports of the potential for revolution in Russia, and that “we need to meet the demands of the people. It is not too late.”

In Vienna, the Kaiser arrived to pay his last respects to Emperor Franz Josef and left the same day. The Emperor was buried on the 29th in the Habsburg family tomb at Tegetthoff.

On 29 November, in the Baltic Sea, German "Operation Iron Cross" commenced with a telegram from Prince Henry to the German Naval Staff, asking for the large Navy airship SL.14, to be based at Searappen and Wainonden for operations to begin on 15 December.

On the Southwest Front, the Russian offensive continued in the Carpathians.

On the Romanian Front, the German Alpine Corps entered Pitesti and Kimpolung. The Romanian General Staff saw a wide gap between Kosch's left and Kühne's right wing, and threw three divisions, including one of cavalry, against Kosch's flank to cut their communications with Kosch's headquarters in Zimnicea on the Danube.

On 30 November, on the Southwest Front, Russian attacks were repulsed on the Zlota Lipa front in Galicia. There was heavy fighting in the Bukowina.

In North Persia, the Russians had advanced 48 km south of the North Persian frontier.