Prince Arsenije "Arsen" of Yugoslavia ( sr, Арсеније Карађорђевић / ''Arsenije Karađorđević''; 16/17 April 1859 – 19 October 1938) was a
dynast of the
House of Karađorđević
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and ancestor of the current
cadet branch
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of the Royal Family which ruled Yugoslavia until 1945. He served as an officer in the Russian Army.
Biography
He was born in
Timișoara
), City of Roses ( ro, Orașul florilor), City of Parks ( ro, Orașul parcurilor)
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a year after his father
Prince Alexander Karađorđević had been deposed from the
Serbian throne (the predecessor regime to the Yugoslavian monarchy). His mother was
Persida Nenadović
Persida Nenadović ( sr-cyr, Персида Ненадовић; 15 February 1813 – 29 March 1873) was the Princess consort of Serbia as the wife of Alexander Karađorđević, who ruled the Principality of Serbia from his election on 14 Sept ...
. Prince Arsen's elder brother was
Peter I Peter I may refer to:
Religious hierarchs
* Saint Peter (c. 1 AD – c. 64–88 AD), a.k.a. Simon Peter, Simeon, or Simon, apostle of Jesus
* Pope Peter I of Alexandria (died 311), revered as a saint
* Peter I of Armenia (died 1058), Catholico ...
, King of Serbia and, later, of the
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
Prince Arsen was married in
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
on 1 May 1892 to Princess
Aurora Pavlovna Demidova of
San Donato, daughter of
Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato
Count Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato (russian: Павел Павлович Демидов; 9 October 1839, Frankfurt am Main / Bad Kissingen – 26 January 1885, Pratolino, Florence) was a Russian industrialist, jurist, p ...
(whose uncle,
Prince Anatoly Demidov, had been first married to
Princess Mathilde Bonaparte) and of Prince Pavel's second wife Princess Elena Petrovna
Trubetskaya.
[''Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser'' VIII. "Jugoslawien". C.A. Starke Verlag, 1968, pp. 95-36. (German).]
Their only son was
Prince Paul of Yugoslavia who was Regent of Yugoslavia from 9 October 1934 to 27 March 1941.
The couple divorced on 26 December 1896 and Aurora Pavlovna was remarried to Count Nicola di Noghera in Genoa on 4 November 1897,
with whom she had a daughter, Helena Aurora di Noghera (22 May 1898 – 12 October 1967). Aurora Pavlovna died in Turin on 28 June 1904.
Prince Arsen died in
Paris
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on 19 October 1938.
100px, Royal Monogram of Prince Arsen of Yugoslavia
Honours and awards
Honours
See also
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Mikhail Miloradovich
Count Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich (russian: Граф Михаи́л Андре́евич Милора́дович, sh-Cyrl, Гроф Михаил Андрејевић Милорадовић ''Grof Mihail Andrejević Miloradović''; – ...
*
Semyon Zorich
Count Semyon Zorich (1743–1799) was an Imperial Russian lieutenant-general and count of the Holy Roman Empire, born in Serbia, who served Imperial Russia against the Prussians and Turks. A member of the Russian court, he was presented to Empress ...
*
Anto Gvozdenović
Anto Gvozdenović (Serbian Cyrillic: Анто Гвозденовић; 26 January 1853 – 2 September 1935) was a Montenegrin, Russian, and French general, a member of the Imperial Russian Privy Council, and a diplomat and statesman.
*
Marko Ivanovich Voinovich
Marko Ivanovich Voinovich (russian: Ма́рко Ива́нович Во́йнович, ; 1750–1807) was an Admiral of the Russian Imperial Navy, one of the founders of the Black Sea Fleet.[Matija Zmajević
Matija Zmajević (also Matej Zmajević; russian: Матвей Христофорович Змаевич, Matvei Khristoforovich Zmayevich; ; January 6, 1680 – August 23, 1735) was an admiral of the Russian Baltic Fleet and the shipbuilder of ...]
References and notes
External links
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1859 births
1937 deaths
19th-century Serbian royalty
20th-century Serbian royalty
Russian people of Serbian descent
Karađorđević dynasty
Burials at the Mausoleum of the Royal House of Karađorđević, Oplenac