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Aurora Pavlovna Demidova di San Donato (2/3 November 1873 in

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– 28 June (OS: 16 June) 1904 in

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) was a Russian noblewoman and by birth a member of the House of Demidov.

Early life

Aurora was born as the eldest daughter of

Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato Count Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato (russian: Павел Павлович Демидов; 9 October 1839, Frankfurt am Main / Bad Kissingen – 26 January 1885, Pratolino, Florence) was a Russian industrialist, jurist, p ...

, and his second wife, Princess Elena Petrovna

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(1853–1917). Her father was the son of the Finnish-Swede philanthropist Aurora Stjernvall von Waleen and her Russian husband,

Pavel Nikolaievich Demidov Pavel (called Paul) Nikolaievich Demidov (russian: Павел Николаевич Демидов; 6 September 1798 Saint Petersburg - 25 March 1840 Mainz) was a Russian nobleman of the Demidov dynasty, philanthropist and industrialist. His fat ...

. Her mother was a daughter of Prince Peter Nikitich

(1826–1880) and Princess Elizabeth Belosselsky-Belozersky.

First marriage

She married

Prince Arsen of Serbia Prince Arsenije "Arsen" of Yugoslavia ( sr, Арсеније Карађорђевић / ''Arsenije Karađorđević''; 16/17 April 1859 – 19 October 1938) was a dynast of the House of Karađorđević and ancestor of the current cadet branc ...

, youngest son of

Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia Alexander Karađorđević ( sr-cyr, Александар Карађорђевић, Aleksandar Karađorđević; 11 October 1806 – 3 May 1885) was the prince of Serbia between 1842 and 1858 and a member of the House of Karađorđević. Early ...

and his wife Princess Persida, in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

on 1 May 1892. They had a son,

Prince Paul of Yugoslavia Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, also known as Paul Karađorđević ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Pavle Karađorđević, Павле Карађорђевић, English transliteration: ''Paul Karageorgevich''; 27 April 1893 – 14 September 1976), was prince regent ...

, who later became the Regent of Yugoslavia. She and Arsen divorced in 1896 because of an adventure of Aurora with a young Baron von Meyendorff-Uexküll. The fruit of this "adventure" was the birth of twins, Nikolai (1895–1933) and Sergei (1895–1912). Nikolai is also buried next to his mother in the Russian cemetery (Caucade) of Nice.

Second marriage

She remarried an Italian Count Palatine Nicola Giovanni Maria di Noghera (

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, 15 June 1875 –

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, 1 April 1944) on 4 November 1897, with whom she had four children: Helena Aurora, Alberto, Giovanni, and Amedeo di Noghera.

Death

She died on 16 June 1904 in Turin and was buried in the Russian Orthodox Cemetery, Nice, (

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External links

* http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=samspage&id=I38537&ti=5538 * https://web.archive.org/web/20100620054813/http://jssgallery.org/Essay/Italy/Demidoff/Princess_Aurore_Pavlona_Demidoff.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Demidova, Aurora Pavlovna 1873 births 1904 deaths

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