Alexander Karageorgievich (Prince of Serbia)

Aleksander Karageorgievich ( 1806 - 1885 ), Prince of Serbia in 1842 - 1858 .

Alexander Karageorgievich
Aleksandar Karaђeorђeviћ
Prince of Serbia September 15, 1842 - January 3, 1859
Predecessor	Michael III Obrenovich
Successor	Milos Obrenovic
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Children	Polexia, Cleopatra, Alexey, Svetozar, Peter , Elena, Andrey, Elizabeth, George, Arseniy
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Courtroom over A. Karageorgievich

The son of Karageorgiy . After the death of his father ( 1817 ) he lived in Russia and served for some time in the Russian army. Prince Milos Obrenović , wanting to come to terms with the offspring of Karageorge, at the end of his first reign invited Alexander to Serbia, where in 1840 he became adjutant to Prince Mikhail III, the son of Milos. After the overthrow of Mikhail III Obrenovich ( 1842 ), in which Alexander did not take an active part, the assembly elected him prince. Russia, then friendly to Obrenovich , did not recognize the coup, but the new elections gave the same result. The Ottoman Empire , on the contrary, recognized the coup immediately and affirmed Alexander, without mentioning the heredity of princely power.

For the whole time of his reign, Prince Alexander had to conform to the desires of Turkey and Austria ; the popular movements in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Bulgaria directed against Turkey in Serbia did not meet with support, but with hostility and opposition. Under the influence of Austria, Alexander remained neutral during the Crimean War . The period of Alexander's reign was a period of codification of laws and the creation of new state institutions; a civil lawyer was published, the judicial system was reformed, the cassation court was first created, a significant number of educational institutions were founded. For the most part, Austria served as the model, and all reforms were bureaucratic. Alexander Karageorgievich was not very popular; Obrenovich’s agitation against him was successful and provoked several uprisings, which pacified with great cruelty.

The popular movement of 1858 directed against Alexander and the hostile position occupied by the assembly (see St. Andrew's Assembly ) forced Alexander to flee to the Belgrade citadel, under the protection of the Turkish garrison. The assembly proclaimed him deposed and called on Milos Obrenovic . Alexander went to Austria. In 1868, he was accused of participating in the murder of Prince Mikhail III Obrenovich and sentenced in absentia by a Serbian court in absentia to 20 years in prison, and by a Hungarian court to 8 years in prison, which he served. The assembly recognized all his offspring as being deprived of their rights to the Serbian throne. The former prince died in the Hungarian Temeshvara (now Timisoara in Romania).

He has two sons left:

• Peter I Karageorgievich (1844-1921), from 1903 the king of Serbia, from 1918 the first king of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (KSHS).
• Arseny (1859-1938), who until 1916 served in the Russian military service and in 1891-1896 married to Aurora Demidova , Princess of San Donato. Their son, Prince Paul, was regent of Yugoslavia in 1934-1941.