Quoted from Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna's biography by Meriel Buchanan:
In an audience he had with the Empress my father tried to warn her that it was laying on the Emperor the whole responsibility for a fresh disaster; that it was too heavy a burden for one man, to combine the duties of commander-in-chief with those of a ruler of a great Empire. She told him coldly that it had been a great mistake her husband not having taken command from the beginning. "I have no patience," she continued, "with Ministers who try to prevent him from doing his duty. The Emperor unfortunately is weak, but I am not," (Note: I find it impossible to believe the Empress would have said this to the English Ambassador. Bob Atchison)