Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch
Serbian artist and writer on art (1861–1908)
Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch (Serbian: Кнез Божидар Карађорђевић / Knez Božidar Karađorđević; 11 January 1862 – 2 April 1908) was a Serbian artist, art writer, world traveller, and member of the Serbian Karađorđević dynasty. He gave singing and drawing lessons and later earned his living as an art critic and 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
Prince Bojidar belonged to the senior line of the Karađorđević dynasty (his older brother was Prince Alexis Karađorđević). He was the second son of Prince George Karađorđević (1827–1884) and his wife Sara Anastasijević (1836-1931), daughter of Miša Anastasijević, Serbian Senator and one of the richest people in Serbia. Prince Bojidars' paternal grandparents were Prince Alexis Karageorgevitch (1801–1829), the eldest son of Karađorđe Petrović and his wealthy wife, Maria Nikolaevna Trohin (1806-1827) from Bessarabia, the daughter of Nicolae Konstantinovich Trohin, the Marshal of the Nobility of Khotyn (1828-1831) and his wife, Victoria Konstantinovna Buzny (d. 1824), the 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. He also had one younger sister (1862-1867), born ten months after him, who died in infancy, but there is no record of her name.
Prince Bojidar lived in France for most of his life as the members of the Karađorđević dynasty were in exile after Prince Alexander Karađorđević lost the Serbian throne in 1858.
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