Prince Arsenije "Arsen" of Yugoslavia ( sr, Арсеније Карађорђевић / ''Arsenije Karađorđević''; 16/17 April 1859 – 19 October 1938) was a dynast of the

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and ancestor of the current

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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

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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

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, King of Serbia and, later, of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Prince Arsen was married in

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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

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on 19 October 1938. 100px, Royal Monogram of Prince Arsen of Yugoslavia

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Arsen Karadordevic 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

Biography

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