Russian Provisional Government, cutting the royal insignia off his epaulettes. He was confirmed in his post as commander of the Turkestan Military District by Provisional Government War Minister Alexander Guchkov. However, this was disputed by the Bolshevik Tashkent Soviet of Soldiers and Workers' Deputies, who placed him under arrest and sent him back to Petrograd. Freed by order of the Provisional Government, he returned to his home province. Following the October Revolution, he became very skilled at playing the violin and taught at an agriculture school that he had founded, until his death in 1925. Writings 1882 – 1909 – Honours Order of St. Alexander Nevsky, with diamonds Order of St. George, 4th class, Order of St. George, 3rd class, Order of the White Eagle Order of St Vladimir 4th degree Order of St Vladimir 3rd degree Order of St Vladimir 2nd degree Order of St. Stanislaus 3rd degree Order of St. Stanislaus 2nd degree Order of St. Stanislaus 1st degree. Order of St. Anne 3rd degree Order of St. Anne 2nd degree Order of St. Anne 1st degree Foreign : Legion of Honor, Chevalier : Order of the Star of Romania : Order of St Alexander : Grand Cordon of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus - July 1902 - during a visit to Russia of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy References Sources «Personal» // «The Advertiser, Adelaide», Monday 26 January 1925, p. 9 Alfred Knox. General Kuropatkin. The Slavonic Review, Vol. 4, No. 10 (Jun., 1925), pp. 164–168 Kowner, Rotem (2006). "Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War". Scarecrow. 620pp. Kashgaria, Eastern Or Chinese Turkistan: Historical and Geographical Sketch of the Country, Its Military Strength, Industries, and Trade. By Aleksei Nikolaevich Kuropatkin. Translated by Walter Edward Gowan. Published by Thacker, Spink and Co., 1882 Kessinger Publishing. 2004. . McCutchen Press. 2008. . The Russian Army and the Japanese War: Being Historical and Critical Comments on the Military Policy and Power of Russia and on the Campaign in the Far East. By Aleksei Nikolaevich Kuropatkin. Translated by Alexander Bertram Lindsay. E.P. Dutton, 1909. Volume I Volume II Connaughton, R.M (1988). The War of the Rising Sun and the Tumbling Bear—A Military History of the Russo-Japanese War 1904–5, London, . Jukes, Geoffry. The Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905. Osprey Essential Histories. (2002). . Warner, Denis & Peggy. The Tide at Sunrise, A History of the Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905. (1975). . External