[2] In April 1915 he was approved in the princely rank and in the same year he was presented to the Order of Saint Anna IV class with an inscription for bravery.

[5] For a personal feat during the capture of the village of Dobropole, Ternopil Oblast, the commander of the Caucasian Native Cavalry Division, major general Dmitry Bagration petitioned for Tarkovsky to be awarded with a Golden Weapon for Bravery.

[3] On 22 March 1917 Tarkovsky was elected from Temir-Khan-Shura to the Provisional Regional Executive Committee of the Great Assembly, which was chaired by Zubair Temirkhanov [ru].

As such worked as part of the Provisional Regional Executive Committee, the head of which was socialist faction leader Djelal ed-Din Korkmasov since August 1917.

On 9 and 14 March of the same year, he protested to the representatives of the Allies,[7] who were located in Baku at the time, about the presence of White Russian troops in the Mountainous Republic.

[8][9] At the end of 1920, he moved to the Ottoman Empire, but following the Turkish War of Independence and the establishment of relations with Soviet Russia, he again migrated to France.