IMPERIAL RUSSIA MINISTER

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 2, 25 September 1937, Page 15

IMPERIAL RUSSIA MINISTER

His Death in Exile J

Buetrest society has become podrer ttrongh the death of an interesting personality — Count Poklewski-Kosell, who represented the isar at the Bumanian Court during the Great War, and remained an Imperial Ambassador nntil the day of his death. Coufit Pokiewski repeatedly declared: "1 have been pladed in my position by His Majesty, the isar, Nichols? II., and oniy the isar- or death, can xecall me from mypo?t . i ; Buearest Wai the lest cipital where % Tsarlst Enibtssy remained in existence, and on the door of the building there w&A ctiil the prdnd inlcription, "Imperial ftoiiian Legation." Count ioklewski htnded out Imperial Btisiian piSsports almost to the end Of hii Ufe— td Eussian eiilcs. The Soviets repeatedly made representations beeause of the existence of an Embasiy of a no longef existent Court, bnt Kiimanian grtttitiido to Tsarist Edstla was alwayi great. After all, it Wts with Eussian help that the two Danubian provinces, Moldavia and W&llachie, Which until then were under iurklsh Sovereignty, established theif independence a? a result of the iurcO'Eussian war Of 1877 and that the iadependent State of Enmania was

born. For this reasoh the Government here did not interfere with the old Oouut, and the arms of the doubleheaded Eussian eagle continued to rej maia "on this isarist Eussian Legation in Buearest. Count Poklewski, who was seventy years old wheu he died, remained the doyen of the Diplomatic CorpS in Buearest. Oniy when the Eunianian Government recognised Soriet-Eussija, two years ago did there seem a cliance of a change. It was oniy some mOnths ago, however, that the Count celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his diplomatio career, on Which occasiOn King Carol 11. arfinged a reception in the palace in honouf Of the aged diplomat. King Caiol handed over td Count Poklewski one of the highest Euuianiau decorations With the words that the CoUnt had no longer a Sovereign, and thtis he (the King) thought it his duty to ' decorate the Minister for his services to his former niastor. t . . Cotint Poklewski Was at one time COunSellor of the Eussian Embassy in London, and had an injportant share in the conclusion of the Eusso-British treaty of 1907. He also played an iiuportant role in bringing Eumania into the war on the side. of the Allies.