Collier's New Encyclopedia

A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

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ROMAN ROMANOVITCH, BARON, 1849. He was educated at Reval, Dorpat, and Petrograd. He early entered the Department of Justice in the Russian Government, from which he was promoted to the Department of Foreign Affairs.

From 1886 to 1894 he was Consul at New York and was chargé d'affaires at Washington, during the first administration of President Cleveland. He served as Secretary of Legation in Japan for one term and as Minister for two terms. In 1905 BARON, a Russian diplomat, born in 1 ROSENFELD he was appointed Ambassador to the United States and was one of the Russian delegates during the peace negotiations at Portsmouth, N. H. He was appointed to the Council of the Empire following his services in the United States, and remained in this position at the outbreak of the Revolution, in 1917, when he escaped to the United States. He wrote in 1920 "Forty Years of a Diplomat's Life."

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