Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch
| Prince Bojidar | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | 11 January 1862 Principality of Serbia |
| Died | 2 April 1908 (aged 46) Versailles, French Third Republic |
| Burial | |
| House | Karađorđević |
| Father | Prince George Karađorđević |
| Mother | Sara (Sarka) Karađorđević |
| Signature |  |
Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch (
translator. He was a contributor to the Encyclopædia Britannica, Le Figaro
, La Revue de Paris, Revue des Revues, Magazine of Art, and other publications.
Life
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Prince Bojidar belonged to the senior line of the
Karađorđe Petrović and his wealthy wife, Maria Nikolaevna Trohin (1806-1827) from Bessarabia, daughter of Nicolae Konstantinovich Trohin, Marshal of the Nobility of Khotyn (1828-1831) and Victoria Konstantinovna Buzny (d. 1824), daughter of Boyar Konstantin Ilyich Buzny (b. circa 1750), who held the title of Armaș, both of their families belonged to the Nobility of Moldavia and Wallachia.[1][2][3][4]
Prince Bojidar lived in France for most of his life as the members of the Karađorđević dynasty were in exile after
Peter I Karađorđević
was enthroned but became disillusioned with the treatment he received (mostly ignored by his regal relative).
During one of his trips abroad, he traveled extensively around
Tolstoy and Hungarian dramatist Mór Jókai
.
Taking an interest in art, he visited Munich, Dresden, and Berlin and spent some months in Italy; afterward, he settled in Paris. There he regularly contributed articles to the Figaro, La Revue de Paris, the Magazine of Art (
Hassan I
of Morocco.
In Montmartre, he met and befriended French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt, pioneer of modern dance Loïe Fuller, French poet, novelist and noted orientalist Judith Gautier, Suzanne Meyer-Zundel, Austrian composer Hugo Wolf, painter and illustrator Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and founder of the Ballets Russes Sergei Diaghilev. Biographer Stevan K. Pavlowitch claims that the Prince was openly gay and had no relationship with women except purely platonic.[8]
In his later years Prince Karadjordjevitch turned his attention in decoration, and executed panels and medallions for a Paris
Les Nabis
. Karageorgevitch's paintings, illustrations, watercolors and silversmith works were first exhibited in Belgrade in 1908.
He died at
Versailles on 2 April 1908 from typhoid fever[9]
Works
Media related to Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch at Wikimedia Commons
- Karageorgevitch, Prince Bojidar (1899). Enchanted India. Harper & Brothers, New York; translated by Clara Bell
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References
- ^ https://inslav.ru/sites/default/files/slav-2016-1.pdf
- ^ Gorovei, Ştefan S. "(De)mistificări genealogice. Familia Buzne".
- ^ "(În culisele istoriei) Un principe sârb, în pământ basarabean". 10 December 2021.
- ^ Morozan, Vladimir. "G Bezviconi Istoria Boerimii Moldovei Dintre Prut Si Nistru".
- ^ The New York Times. 12 June 1913. p. 2.
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- ^ "Two Books about India". The New York Times. 29 July 1898. pp. BR501.
- ^ Profil magazine, Issue 22, reprinted here in Serbian
- ^ "Death of a Servian Prince". The New York Times. 26 April 1908. pp. C2.
- ^ "Review of Enchanted India by Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch". The Athenaeum (3740): 34. 1 July 1899.
Further reading
- Pavlowitch, Stevan K. (1978). Bijou d'art: Histoires de la vie, de l'œuvre et du milieu de Bojidar Karageorgévitch, artiste parisien et prince balkanique (1862–1908) [Bijou d'art: Histories of life, work, and milieu of Bojidar Karageorgevitch, Parisian artist and Balkan prince (1862–1908)] (in French). Paris: L'Age d'homme.