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 and ancestor of the current
cadet branch of the Royal Family which ruled Yugoslavia until 1945. He served as an officer in the Russian Army.
Biography
He was born in
Timișoara 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, King of Serbia and, later, of the
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
Prince Arsen was married in
Saint Petersburg on 1 May 1892 to Princess
Aurora Pavlovna Demidova
Princess Aurora Pavlovna Demidova di San Donato (2/3 November 1873 in Kiev – 28 June (OS: 16 June) 1904 in Turin) was a Russian noblewoman and by birth a member of the Demidov, House of Demidov.
Early life
Aurora was born as the eldest daught ...
of
San Donato, daughter of
Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato (whose uncle,
Prince Anatoly Demidov, had been first married to
Princess Mathilde Bonaparte) and of Prince Pavel's second wife Princess Elena Petrovna
Trubetskaya
The House of Trubetskoy (English), Трубецкие (Russian), Трубяцкі ( Belarusian), ''Trubecki'' (Polish), ''Trubetsky'' ( Ruthenian), Трубецький (Ukrainian), ''Troubetzkoy'' (French), ''Trubic'' (Croatian), ''Trubetski'' ...
.
[''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
Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, also known as Paul Karađorđević ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Pavle Karađorđević, Павле Карађорђевић, English transliteration: ''Paul Karageorgevich''; 27 April 1893 – 14 September 1976), was prince regent o ...
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 on 19 October 1938.
100px, Royal Monogram of Prince Arsen of Yugoslavia
Honours and awards
Honours
See also
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Mikhail Miloradovich
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Semyon Zorich
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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.
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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 T ...]
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
