I immediately obeyed him, and the three of us joined the Red Army. The "old mother" was against it, but we persuaded her ... He talked a lot about the Russo-Japanese [War] and World War I. "And you know, in 1915, I presented to His Majesty the Emperor of Russia documents on the subject of the assignment of the rank of Colonel Nikolai Iosifovich Bettikher; in those years he commanded a heavy artillery division for me..." And it became clear to us why the commandant of the school was pulled at the sight of this teacher. Radkevich was always busy. The cleanly decorated topography room was filled by cadets during free hours. Maps, schemes of various scales hung on the walls, [and] educational exhibits were neatly arranged. On the tables lay massive multi-colored pencils, erasers, workbeds, sheets of Whatman paper, tracing paper — the general brought most of these scarce things from home. Radkevich circulated among the cadets, advised them, showed them things. We studied here not only topography - the old teacher willingly gave advice on other disciplines. When choosing a presidium at ceremonial meetings, he received dozens of votes. Shy, he climbed onto the stage and sat modestly in the second row. "The commissioner or the head of the school approached him and sat next to him." In 1923, Radkevich retired due to age. He died in 1930. Personal life Radkevich was a member of the Russian Orthodox Church. Although his last name is spelled universally as "Radkevich," all his relatives bore (and still bear) the surname Rodkevich (), the Ukrainian spelling of the Russian "Radkevich." Radkevich's wife was Elena Ivanovna Rodkevich nee Linovitskaya (1859-1935), the daughter of an Imperial Russian Army colonel, who acquired a secondary education. The couple had five children. After she was widowed in 1930, she resided in Leningrad and received a personal pension for her husband's military service. Blind and deaf in her later years, she needed constant assistance. Deemed a "particularly dangerous element" by the Soviet government she was arrested, she was sent to Orenburg on 5 March 1935 for five years, but died that year. Radkevich's two eldest children were his daughters Inna Evgenievna Dushkevich nee Rodkevich (21 June 1883–1965) and Kira Evgenievna Rodkevich (25 September 1884, Saint Petersburg — 1935). Kira was educated at the Kherson girls' gymnasium and lived in Leningrad in the 1930s. She committed suicide in 1935