• 1901 – Graduated from the
Marine Corps with a promotion to
warrant officer. • 1901–1902 – Chief of the Watch of transport
Bug. • April 30, 1903 – Chief of Watch of the cruiser ''
Pamiat' Merkuria''. • 1904 – Graduated from the mine officer class. • 1905 – Mine officer of the battleship
Tri Sviatitelia. • 1906–1907 – Mine officer of the battleship
Dvenadsat Apostolov and the gunboat . • 1908 – Commander of Destroyer No. 272, teacher at the mine school of the
Black Sea Fleet. • 1911 –
Senior Lieutenant, Acting
Senior Officer of the cruiser ''Pamiat' Merkuria''. • 6 December 1913 –
Captain 2nd rank for "distinction in service". • 1914–1915 – Commander of the destroyer . • 1915–1917 – Commander of the destroyer
Bespokoiny. • 1917 –
Captain 1st rank and commander of the battleship
Volya. • In June 1918, he took command of the Black Sea Fleet from Vice Admiral
Mikhail Sablin when he left for Moscow to discuss the issue of
scuttling the fleet. Tikhmenev was buried at the in
Tunis. ==Distinctions==