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Updated: May 13, 2025
He was the last and decadent scion of the Obrenovitches and was marked down from his accession. Vladan Georgevitch, who was Prime Minister of Serbia from 1897 till 1900, in his book The End of a Dynasty, throws much light on the events that led up to the final catastrophe.
A few days after my arrival, Wucics and Petronievitch, the two pillars of the party of Kara Georgevitch, the reigning prince, and the opponents of the ousted Obrenovitch family, returned from banishment in consequence of communications that had passed between the British and Russian governments. Great preparations were made to receive the popular favourites.
He had a turgid, sentimental wife, always weeping and cramming her religious notions down his throat. Of course someone asked Rouletabille what he thought of Russia, but he had no more than opened his mouth to reply than Athanase Georgevitch closed it by interrupting: "Permettez! Permettez! You others, of the young generation, what do you know of it?
I know him," said Rouletabille, seating himself and mastering his emotion. "They say he is a great admirer of Annouchka," hazarded Thaddeus. Then he walked away from the box. "The prince has been ruined by women," said Athanase Georgevitch, who pretended to know the entire chronicle of gallantries in the empire. "He also has been on good terms with Gounsovski," continued Thaddeus.
And there are no secrets. What I tell you you may tell the world but I warn you that it will neither interest them nor will they believe it.... There is, you see, no climax to my story. I have no story, indeed; like an old feldscher in my village who hates our village Pope. 'Why, Georg Georgevitch, I say, 'do you hate him?
"Poor Boichlikoff did his duty, as I did mine. "Yes, papa, you acted like a soldier. That is what the revolutionaries ought not to forget. But have no fears for us, papa; because if they kill you we will all die with you." "And gayly too," declared Athanase Georgevitch. "They should come this evening. We are in form!" Upon which Athanase filled the glasses again.
Pointing out the lines of tables shining with their white cloths and bright silver, Athanase Georgevitch, with his mouth full, said: "Ah, my dear little French monsieur, you should see it at supper-time, with the women, and the jewels, and the music. There is nothing in France that can give you any idea of it, nothing!
I have brought an old gniagnia who watched me grow up, Ermolai, and the Orel servants. In the meantime, two months later, the third attempt suddenly occurred. It is certainly of them all the most frightening, because it is so mysterious, a mystery that has not yet, alas, been solved." But Athanase Georgevitch had told a "good story" which raised so much hubbub that nothing else could be heard.
Greeks, Jews, and Tsinsars, form a considerable proportion of those engaged in the foreign trade: it is to be remarked that most of this class are secret adherents of the Obrenovitch party, while the wealthy native Servians support Kara Georgevitch.
"Be happy, then, Athanase Georgevitch," said he, "for there are now no police around the villa." "Where are they?" inquired the timber-merchant uneasily. "An order came from Koupriane to remove them," explained Matrena Petrovna, who exerted herself to appear calm. "And are they not replaced?" asked Michael. "No. It is incomprehensible. There must have been some confusion in the orders given."
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