Will the real Baron Rosen please come forward
by Gary Combs, gcombs@cablespeed.com
OK all you history buffs. is this covered from the individual described below? Gary Baron Roman Romanovich Rosen (1849-1922). Graduate of the Imperial School of Law; entered the section for civil affairs in the First Department of the Ministry of Justice, 1868; in the Asiatic Departnient of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1872; Vice-Consul in Yokohama, 1875, and later secretary of the Russian Mission in Yeddo (Tokyo), in which capacity he remained until 1884; Consul-General in New York, 1884-1890; Minister to Mexico, 1890-1895, to Belgrade, 1895-1897, to Tokyo, 1897-1899, to Munich, 1900-1901, to Athens, 1901-1904; returned to Tokyo in 1904 but was obliged to leave in January when diplomatic relations were severed; Minister to the United States, 1905-1911 ; second plenipotentiary at the peace negotiations at Portsmouth, 1905; member of the State Council, 1911.
Baren Rosen, Act Two.
Philip
Robinson found this postcard and sent it to me after reading the first Baron Rozen item.
This is a very nice piece in that it may indicate that the good Baron was a collector.
Well, at least of postcards with postmarks.
The card was posted in Tula in
1907 and sent to California, USA. It bears a pair of the 1-kop. stamps of 1902-05. On the
front we see the manuscript "Please exchange Baron Rosen." On the reverse, lower
left, we see the manuscript "weltall 2635." Could this be a membership number in
a collector's society?
Back of postcard