17 Facts About Roman Rosen

Baron Roman Romanovich Rosen was a diplomat in the service of the Russian Empire.

One of his ancestors, another Baron Roman Rosen, won distinction in command of the Astrakhanskii Cuirassier Regiment at the Battle of Borodino on September 7,1812, for which he was noted in the official battlefield report to General Barclay de Tolly.

Roman Rosen was charge d'affaires at Tokyo and later at Washington, and was acting in a judicial capacity as the mouthpiece of an international tribunal that was regarded as discourteous to Japan.

Roman Rosen graduated from the University of Dorpat and the Imperial School of Jurisprudence, and joined the Russian Foreign Ministry's Asiatic Department, rising to head the Japan Bureau in 1875.

Roman Rosen helped draft the Treaty of Saint Petersburg, in which Japan exchanged its claims over Sakhalin for undisputed sovereignty over the entire Kurile islands chain.

Roman Rosen served as First Secretary of the Russian legation at Yokohama from 1875 to 1883.

Roman Rosen was then appointed to the Consulate-General of Russia in New York City in 1884, and then as temporary charge d'affaires to Washington, DC, from 1886 to 1889.

Roman Rosen then returned to Europe, and was appointed ambassador to Serbia, staying in Belgrade until 1897.

Roman Rosen was in Tokyo at the start of the Russo-Japanese War, which he had made every effort to prevent.

When United States President Theodore Roosevelt attempted to mediate the hostilities, Roman Rosen was chosen as new Russian ambassador to the United States in May 1905 and as Sergei Witte's deputy within the Russian peace delegation.

Roman Rosen traveled to New Hampshire for negotiations in a cessation of hostilities and a peace treaty.

Roman Rosen stayed in the United States until autumn 1911, when he was recalled to St Petersburg to retire from the diplomatic service.

Roman Rosen was appointed by Tsar Nicholas II to the State Council of Imperial Russia.

Roman Rosen held this membership in the Russian parliamentary Upper House under the Constitution of 1905 until the overthrow of the monarchy by the February Revolution in 1917.

Roman Rosen spent his last years in poverty, working as a translator and business consultant.

Roman Rosen got hit by a taxi cab driver while walking down the street on the night of December 14,1921, in Manhattan, New York City.

Roman Rosen wrote a series of articles about European diplomacy and politics for The Saturday Evening Post covering the period from his first exile in Sweden to his life in the United States.