Editing Anton Rubinstein (section)

===Later life===
Rubinstein continued to make tours as a pianist and give appearances as a conductor. In 1887, he returned to the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with the goal of improving overall standards.  He removed inferior students, fired and demoted many professors, made entrance and examination requirements more stringent, and revised the curriculum.  He led semi-weekly teachers' classes through the whole keyboard literature and gave some of the more gifted piano students personal coaching.  During the 1889–90 academic year he gave weekly lecture-recitals for the students. He resigned again and left Russia in 1891 over Imperial demands that Conservatory admittance, and later annual prizes to students, be awarded along ethnic quotas instead of purely by merit.  These quotas were designed to effectively disadvantage Jews. Rubinstein resettled in [[Dresden]] and started giving concerts again in Germany and Austria.  Nearly all of these concerts were charity benefit events.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}

Rubinstein also coached a few pianists and taught his only private piano student, [[Josef Hofmann]]. Hofmann would become one of the finest keyboard artists of the 20th century.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}

Despite his sentiments on ethnic politics in Russia, Rubinstein returned there occasionally to visit friends and family. He gave his final concert in Saint Petersburg on 14 January 1894. With his health failing rapidly, Rubinstein moved back to Peterhof in the summer of 1894. He died there on 20 November of that year, having suffered from [[heart disease]] for some time.<ref>[[#Sachs|Sachs]], 78–80</ref><ref>[[#Schonberg|Schonberg]], 279, 384–385</ref>

The former Troitskaya Street in Saint Petersburg where he lived is now named [[Rubinstein Street (Saint Petersburg)|Rubinstein Street]] after him.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}