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Show DEATH CALLS BARON ROSEN Former Russian Diplomat Who Became Writer Dies of Injuries NEW YORK. Dec. 31 Baron Rosen, formerly Russian ambassador to the I'ni'erl States, died this evening from Injuries sustained recently when knocked down by an automobile Baron Rosen, one af the peace envoys en-voys who settled the war between I'.us-sla I'.us-sla and Japan, for more than four years had been an exile from his na-Uvo na-Uvo land. pno-limt woi m-i.inioiiM ciiiiiiiii;ii , ho spent the last years of his life In the United States where ho engaged In wTltlfig for magazines: and newspapers. news-papers. He came of very old Swedish stock, was born In 18 19 and educated at the University of Dornat and the Imperial Academy of Laws in Petro-grad. Petro-grad. Ills ancestors followed the banner ban-ner of Gustavus Adolphus In the Invasion In-vasion of Muscovy 300 years ago and settled In Lithuania whore tho family maintained a ;wt estate, The Rosens gavo Russia runny distinguished genera gen-era Ik, diplomats nnd writers. A brother broth-er of Baron Rosen achieved eminence In science. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Immortals and 'was, perhaps, at one time,-the greatest j authority on Arabia. Baron Boson, because of his scholarship schol-arship and desire for world peace, was a trusted advisor of the late Emperor Nicholas. He bal been a State coun-Vlllor, coun-Vlllor, c-hamberlln of tho imperial court and a knight of the order of St. Vladimir, St Ann anf St Stanislaus UN ED N I s i COAfi I ) A talented musicians, he spoko English, Eng-lish, French, Germ in. Italian and Japanese. Jap-anese. For many years he was in the foreign service of Russia. Ho first en-;tert-d the Kiif-sl.tn department of Justice Jus-tice and later In turn became Russian ! vice consul at Yokohama, secretary of legation at Toklo nnd consul goneraJ at San Francisco. He was Russian I charge d'affaires in 'Washington from I 1880 to 8S! and Russian consul gen-eral gen-eral In Now York in 1S1U 8ubae-Iquently 8ubae-Iquently he became Russian minister to IfsxlCO, Serbia, Bavaria, Greece and Japan, and served as ambassador to tho United States from 1S05 to 1911 when he was succeeded by Boris Bak-limstoCf. Bak-limstoCf. Baron Bosen arrived In America ln tho spring of 1919 from Stockholm, Sweden, where ho had fled with his wife and daughter following tho coup d'etat which overthrew the Korensky administration and established the j Bolshevists ln power. Hp paid at that 'time that "Russia as a political entity I h.us ceased to exist." DRIVEN BY BOLSHEVIKS. Ho declared that It was tho "deadly poison of Bolshevism" which brought on tho defeat of Russia. "The germs of this deadly disease, Bolshevism, although lying dormant, were present and nro still present everywhere," he said, "bred and nurtured nur-tured by the atmosphoro of social unrest, un-rest, and Inevitable accompaniment of the wonderful achievements of modern mod-ern civilization which aro doing so much to emphasize and render more glaring tho contrast between luxury and ease of the few and tho want and limitations of tho many, condemned to a life of Incessant toll, Jayless monot- j ony and anxious Insecurity."' Tho former diplomat had resided I for several yean with his wife and daughter at a New York hotel. His widow. Baroness Elizabeth Alexlevna Rosen, Is tho daughter of General ndlntzof f, who for many years was governor general of .Moscow. |