Continuing service at the regiment at the end of the war, he was promoted to staff captains (January 6, 1879), captains (March 24, 1885) and colonels (February 28, 1893), holding the posts of squadron commander of His Majesty (from November 4, 1885, October 1, 1891) and assistant commander of the Life Guards Cossack Regiment (from April 21, 1893, to June 9, 1899).
On June 30, 1904, he became commander of the Life Guards of the Cossack Regiment and the following year he was enrolled in the retinue of His Imperial Majesty.
On December 31, 1913, he was dismissed from the age qualification service with the award of the rank of general from the cavalry, with a uniform and pension.
[2] Rodionov stayed in retirement for a little more than two months and on March 6, 1914, he was again accepted by the former rank of lieutenant general (with seniority from November 19, 1911), with enrollment in the Guards Cavalry and the Donskoy Army and in the lists of the Life Guards of the Cossack Regiment and appointment as honorary guardian of St. Petersburg (after the outbreak of World War I - Petrograd) the presence of the Board of Trustees of the institutions of the Empress Maria.
After the February Revolution of 1917, the Provisional Government set about liquidating the Departments of Institutions of Empress Mary, and Rodionov, like other honorary guardians, was left to the state.