New-York tribune., 1922-01-01
Baron ROsen
Noted Russian
Diplomat, Dies
Succu,nbs to Injuries Sus-
tanned when Struck by
Taxicab OF Dec. Is; His
Wife With Him at End
Won Fame as a Writer
Had Served as Ambassador
to u. S. Under Czar and
in Other Important Posts

bassador to the United States from
Russia, c.piomnt and writer. died yes
tcrday ut the Hotel Ncthcrland.
Baroness Rosen, who reached New York
from Paris on December %, having
hurried home on receiving word of his
illness. was with her husband when
he died
Baron Roscn's death was due to in
jurics received when he was knocked
down by taxicab at Sixth Avenue and
fifty-iourth Street on December -.
His right leg was broken and complca-
tions developed from which the patient
did not rally.
Following his injury, Baron Rosen
was bcsought by ambulance surgeons
e 20 to a hospital, but he preferred to
return 20 his own apartments in the
hotel. whittier he vas conveyed by
Chester Smith. chauffeur of tho taNicab
which ran him down.
Baron Roscn became unconscious Just
after o'clock in the afternoon. The
baroness ut once called Dr.. Boyd and
Mrs Edgar Naughton, friend resi-
dent Il. the hotel. Both were with the
baron when he expired.
Services will be held at thc Russian
Church Of st. Nicholas. ) East Ninety
seventh Street. for the public on Tues
day at 10 a. m. In keeping with the
Russian custom privatc .srvices will be
held at tac same church tomorrow
evening ct O'Clock. Following the
services the remains viii be taken to
tie crcmatory at Fresh Pond.
Lengthy Diplomatic Career
During the carly part of the World
y ar Baron Rosen was a member of the
Council of the Empire of the Czars gov
ernmcnt. Previously he had been
American Ambas sador. Consul General
in New York and Minister to Serbia
Greece, Kumania and Japan He also
served as delegate to the Russo-Japan-
csc peace conference in Portsmouth,
\. II.
Since the Russian debaclc toward the
end of the World War Baron Rosen
had devoted himself to writings on the
Russian and general European politi
cal and economic situation created by
the war, notable among which vas a
series of articles in "Thc Saturday
Evening POST which created wide COM
ment and proved influential in Guid-
ancc Of world opinion with regard to
tho trend of events in Russia under
leniue and Trotzky.
Baron Roscn came of very Old Swc-
DISH stock He WAS educated at the
i University of Dorpat and the Imperial
/ Academy of Laws in Potrograd His
4 ancestors followed the banner of Gus
tavus Adolphus in the invasion of
Nuscovy 300 years ago and settled in
Lithuania, where the family maintained
u vast estate. The Rnsens gave Russia
many distinguished generals. diplomats
end writer's. A brother OF Baron
Roscn achieved eminence in science.
He was a member Of the Russian Acad-
cmy Of Immorta,s and was. perhaps,
1t one time the greatest authority on
Arabia.
Trusted Adviser of Gar
Baron Rosen, because Of his scholar
ship and desire for world peace. was
a trusted adviser of the late Emperor
Nicholas He had been a state coun-
cilor, chamberlain Of the imperial
court and a knight of the Order of st.
Vladimir. St Ann and St Stanislaus
A talented musician, he spoke Eng
lish. French. German. Italian and
Japanese. For many years he was in the
foreign service o. Russia lIe first
entered the Russian Department OF
Justice and later in turn became Rus
sian vice-consul at Yokohama. secre-
tary of legation at Toxic and consul
general at San Francisco. lie was
Russian charge d'affaires in Washing
ton from 1885 to 1889 and Russian
consul general in New York in l994
lie served as Amba sador to the United
States from 1905 to 1911, when he was
succeeded by Boris Bakhmetef3.
Baron Rosen arrived in America in
the spring of 1919 from Stockholm.
Sweden where he had fled with his
wife and daughter following the coup
d'etat which overthrew the kerersky
administration and established the
Bolshevili in power He said at that
time that "Russia as political entity
has ceased to exist" He declared that
it was the 'poison of Bolshevism'
which brought on the defeat o Rus
sa.
The germs of this deadly disease
Bolshevism, although lying dormant
are present everywhere" he said
bred and nurtured by the atmosphere
of social unrest, an inevitable accom-
paniment Of the wonderful achieve
ments of modern civilization, which are
doing so much to emphasize and rem
der more glaling the contrast between
luxury and ease of the few and the
want and limitations of the many
condemned to a life of incessant toll
ioyless monotony and anxious inse
curity"
The former diplomat had resided 'o1
several years with his wife and daugh
ter in New York His widow, Baroncs.
Elizabeth AleNevna Rosen. is
daughter Of General Odintzof. wh'
for many years was Governor of ~ os
COW.
JOSEPH Z. O'CRADN