Rosen, Alexander Vladimirovich

Born October 18, 1779 in the family of Lieutenant-General Baron Vladimir Ivanovich Rosen and his wife Olympiad Fedorovna, nee Raevskaya.

Recorded in the service on the 8th year of life in the Life Guard Preobrazhensky Regiment as a sergeant (01/01/2787), Alexander Rosen was then transferred (01/01/1794) to the Army Surgeon in the Horse Regiment , and in January 1795 he was released as captain in Azov Infantry Regiment , where he rose to the rank of major (September 22, 1796).

Hiking with Suvorov

After transferring on April 28, 1797 to the Ryazhsk Musketeer Regiment, Baron Rosen was appointed to consist (14.07.1799) as adjutant under the graph Suvorov-Rymniksky ; he took part in the campaign against Italy against the French, and, being under Suvorov during the battle on April 9 during the occupation of the city and the citadel of Brescia , he showed excellent courage and composure, more than once sending Suvorov with orders under the fire of the enemy. On April 17, while crossing the River Ada, in other cases, Rosen, on the orders of Suvorov, was in active troops and, together with two squadrons of hussars and two battalions of Austrian grenadiers, attacked the enemy column, hurrying to cut off the path to the bridge on p. Ada; Baron Rosen struck and exterminated her, seizing 6 guns and one banner; for this feat he received from the Order of St. Suvorov. Anna 2nd degree.

With the capture of the city of Tortona on May 11, with the breaking of the French troops at Marengo on May 14 and with the occupation of the city of Turin , Baron Rosen was all the time under the commander in chief and was awarded the commander’s cross of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and the Royal-Sardinian Order of St. Mauritius and Lazarus . During the siege of Alexandria , as well as during the siege of the citadel of Serevalo, he again led several troops to attack, successfully acting against the enemy, and in the general battle of Novi commanded the consolidated guards battalion and, seeing that the enemy shooters lay in the vineyards and shoot straight from there on Russian troops, he, on his own initiative, attacked them and knocked them out of the vineyards with bayonets: meeting the enemy convoy, who had arrived to reinforce the riflemen, he, however, inspiring the soldiers, rushed forward, attacked Yeah, and I forced him to retreat to the damage. For this case he was awarded the Order of St.. Anna 2 class, decorated with diamond signs.

In September, Baron Rosen was with the troops in Switzerland, in October he participated in the battle during the occupation and assault of the Devil's Bridge and, during the whole transition of Suvorov through the Alps, was invariably in the line of duty and was awarded the Austrian military order of Maria Theresa. Remaining under Suvorov, Rosen on January 10, 1800 was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and on April 25 of the same year he was still assigned to the Ryazhsk Musketeer Regiment.

Napoleon Wars

In 1801, the Life Guards were transferred to the Preobrazhensky Regiment, in which 09/17/1802 was promoted to colonel, on September 24 of the same year he was transferred to the Pavlograd Hussars and in 1805 marched with him against the French . From August 13, he was in a continuous march through Galicia, Silesia, Moravia, Upper Austria and, having passed part of Bavaria to the city of Alt and Nemtin, returned with the regiment; during this journey, on October 19, he participated in the battle at Lambok, then at Enns, Anstetten, St. Pölten and, finally, in the battle at Schöngrabene , during which he commanded the outposts, having continuous dealings with the enemy. When attacking an enemy in Wimau, Rosen several times cut with his hussars into an enemy vehicle, upset him and gave him the opportunity to act in fresh units. When Austerlitz he was in the forefront, with a battalion of hussars, he attacked the French, for which on 12.01.1806 he was awarded the Order of St. George 4th degree. Then Baron Rosen moved through Hungary to the borders of Russia.

In 1806, Baron Rosen was appointed commander of the Pavlograd hussars, and as his commander he took part in further military operations against Napoleon. Fighting in December at the metro station Golomino and near Makov, he was in the vanguard with battalions of hussars and Don Cossacks and made a devastating attack at the village of Novaya-Vesi, for which he received a golden sword with the inscription “for bravery”. In 1807, under Jankow, then under Landeberg and Preussisch-Eylau, he commanded separate detachments and in May participated in the crossing of the Russian army across the Alt River. Being in the advanced troops under the command of Ataman troops of the Don General Platov , Rosen with his dashingness won the favor of the famous Cossack and was presented to them and awarded the Order of St. Vladimir 3rd degree.

In 1810, Rosen was appointed Chief of the Life-Cuirassier Her Majesty Regiment and in the campaign of 1812 took part in the battles against the French near Vitebsk, near Smolensk and near Borodin . With the specified Life-Cuirassiers regiment under his command, he attacked at the head of two squadrons of this regiment the enemy cavalry, which sought to destroy the Russian infantry cut off from the kurgan battery; this reinforced the attack of the Horse Guards and the Horse Guards; Baron Rosen was promoted to major general for this.

This August 26th, being in a battle under the personal command of Mr. Major General Borozdin, with a regiment entrusted to me by the Life-Cuirassier of Her Imperial Majesty from six o'clock in the morning to four in the afternoon under intransient shots of the enemy; at four o'clock at the command of Evo, Mr. Major-General Borozdin, I followed on the right flank, at the very time when the adversary's excellent cavalry broke into the center of our army. Seeing this, I attacked myself with the Leib squadron and the enemy's Major Cashmbar to the rear, where the enemy cuirassiers and lancers were completely defeated and overturned by a double attack on his infantry. Simi attacks saved our infantry and the entire center of our army. But two squadrons, the commander and major Salogub, remained on the left flank, where they took enemy batteries twice, but could not, without reinforcements, to bring them down.

- The report of the chief of the Life-Cuirassier Her Imperial Majesty regiment Colonel Baron A.V. Rosen to Tsarevich and Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich ^[1]

Under Tarutin, under Maloyaroslavets and Vyazma, under the Red and at the crossing of the river. Berezina Rosen with the Life Cuirassians was all the time in the head of the active army and was awarded the Order of St. Anna 1 class. In the further pursuit of Napoleon’s army, he was at the head of his regiment all the time, and for the successes he showed in the battle of Frankfurt am Main, he received the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class.

Turning to the Rhine on January 1, 1814, Rosen joined the regiment within France, on March 18 he was in battle near Paris , attacking the Montmartre suburbs.

Late years

At the end of the campaign, Baron Rosen was rewarded with a lease in the Grodno province (the old head of Lisovitsky with villages), and in 1816 he was appointed brigade commander of the 1st brigade of the 3rd dragoon division. In 1819, he was granted an eternal hereditary possession of 3000 acres of land, and in the same year he was appointed commander of the 3rd Dragoon Division. In 1822, Rosen was forced to go abroad for treatment, and in 1826-1829 he consisted of cavalry.

He died in St. Petersburg on August 20, 1832 and was buried in the Tikhvin cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery. He was married to the Polish Countess Albertina Grabowska (1784-1856). Their daughter Maria, the maid of honor of the court (1830), was married to her cousin Grabovsky.

Order of St.Anna 1st St. , Vladimir 3rd St., George of the 4th grade, Commander John of Jerusalem ; Prussian Red Eagle 2 nd century, Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresa 3 nd century, Sardinian Mauritius and Lazarus ; golden saber "for courage . "

• Rosen 2nd, Alexander Vladimirovich // Russian biographical dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.

• Dictionary of Russian generals, participants in hostilities against the army of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1812-1815. // Russian archive. History of the Fatherland in the certificates and documents of the XVIII — XX centuries. : Collection. - M .: studio " TRITE " N. Mikhalkov , 1996. - T. VII . - p . 536 . - ISSN 0869-20011 . (Comm. A. A. Podmaso )