Necropolis of Russian Shanghai (Некрополь русского Шанхая) record

  • ID: 1443
  • Surname: Rosen-Lanskaya (Countess, von Rosen)
  • Forename and paternity: Alexandra Nikolaevna
  • Фамилия: Розен (графиня Ланская)
  • Имя и отчество: Александра Николаевна
  • S: f
  • Date of birth // Дата рождения: 1878 circa
  • Date of death // Дата смерти: 1923-02-01
  • Rank or nobility // Чин или звание: Countess
  • Details of death // Детали смерти: Suicide by hanging
  • Obituary // Некролог: NCH 1923-02-10; TCP 1923-02-02
  • NRS // НРС: 365
  • Notes // Примечания: “‘Do not bury me but ring up Dr. Birt so that he may use my body for scientific study.’ This was the remarkable request made in a farewell letter by A. Rosen-Lanskaya, whose body was found hanging from her bed at 261 Broadway, the circumstances pointing to suicide.” Countess Rosen-Lanskaya was the one to pass Kolchak’s transfer of power to Ataman Semenoff. She was among the officers who organized the hijacking of the postal vessel Patrokl in Vladivostok, which they used to escape to Japan. In Shanghai, she worked at the German Hospital. Brother, possibly, Constantin Nikolaevich Rosen (1883–1953). “Little is known of her antecedents and the only cause is that she was despondent over financial affairs.”