Draga Mašin

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Draga Lunjevica

Draga Mašin , née Lunjevica , also known as Draga of Serbia , (born September 23, 1867 (?) In Gornji Milanovac ; †  June 11,  1903 in Belgrade ) was Queen of Serbia.

Life

Draga Lunjevica was the maid of honor of Queen Natalija , the mother of the future King Alexander I. She was married to the civil engineer Svetozar Mašin (1851-1886), who died young.

Alexander, who was proclaimed King of Serbia in 1889 after his father had renounced the throne , married Draga on August 5, 1900 in Belgrade, incurring the displeasure and active resistance of his mother, who had taken over the reign until he came of age and had great political influence over Serbia . Finally he banished his own mother abroad.

However, even among the people, the non-aristocratic and scandalous Draga was deeply hated. The situation was exacerbated by the fact that due to Draga's childless marriage, her brother, who was extremely unpopular in the officer corps, was appointed heir to the throne of the Obrenović dynasty .

On June 10, 1903, a group of officers led by their first husband's brother broke into the Royal Palace in Belgrade. Alexander and Draga hid in a closet, but could be discovered. They were then murdered and their bodies thrown out of a window in the palace. This was the end of the Obrenović rule.

Alexander and Draga were buried in St. Mark's Church in Belgrade.

Ada Negri dedicated the poem Il sogno di Draga to Draga's striving for power and her tragic end .

Web links

Commons : Draga Mašin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Draga . In: Mayer's Kleines Konversations-Lexikon, 1908, second volume, page 425
  2. ↑ Christopher Clark: The Sleepwalkers. How Europe moved into World War I. Munich, 18th edition, 2014, p. 30.
  3. ↑ Published in: Maternitá , Milano 1904, online at adanegri.it; German translation by Hedwig Jahn: Dragas Traum , published in: Mutterschaft , Berlin 1905, pp. 132–135.
predecessor Office Successor
Natalia Cheșco Queen of Serbia
1900–1903 		Maria of Romania
personal data
SURNAME Mašin, Draga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lunjevic, Draga; Lunjevica, Draga; Draga of Serbia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION by marriage Queen of Serbia
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Gornji Milanovac
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1903
Place of death Belgrade