1
Essentials

Born: At Rijeka, Montenegro on November 4, 1884
Christened: Rijeka, Montenegro
Godparents:
Name day:
Nickname: Jabe
Parents: Peter Karadjordjevich, later King Peter I of Serbia and Princess Zorka-Ljubitsa of Montenegro.
Engaged: At Racconigi, Italy, in October 1911.
Married: At the Great Palace, Peterhof on September 2, 1911 n.st.
Issue: (1) Vsevolod, born in the Marble Palace, St. Petersburg on January 20, 1914 n.st. (2) Catherine, born at Pavlovsk, Tsarskoe Selo on July 25, 1915 n.st.
Died: At Nice on October 16 1962 n.st.
Buried: At Caucade Cemetery, Nice.
Relationship to author: First Cousin of father.
Principal residences in Russia: Marble Palace, St. Petersburg and Pavlovsk Palace near Tsarskoe Selo.
Diaries: None known.
Biography: None known.
Present Episodic Biography in 10 Episodes:
1. Essentials.
2. Introduction.
3. Childhood and Adolescence.
4. To find a husband.
5. Marriage and Married Life in Peacetime.
6. Wartime Work.
7. The Fall of an Empire.
8. Ordeal.
9. In Exile.
10. References.
In all 14426 words ( 35 pages ) with 6 Illustrations:
1. Houses and church at Rijeka. Christening of "Jabe".
2. House at Rijeka. "Jabe" playing.
3. Elena Petrovna in 1901 / 1902 ?
4. Elena Petrovna in 1911.
5. Elena Petrovna with son Vsevolod.
6. Elena Petrovna in 1925 - Bad quality reproduction.

Immediate Family Tree
1 - Jelena
1st Generation
2 - Petar Karadjordjevich, later King Petar I of Serbia. (1844 - 1921)
3 - Zorka-Ljubitsa Petrovich Njegosh, Princess of Montenegro (1864 - 1890)
2nd Generation
4 - Prince Alexander I of Serbia (1806 - 1885)
5 - Persida Nenadovich (1813 - 1873)
6 - Prince, later King Nikola I of Montenegro. (1841 - 1921)
7 - Milena Vukotich
3rd Generation
8 - Djordje "Kara Djordje" Petrovich (1752 - 1817)
9 - Jelena Jovanovich (1764 - 1842)
10 - Yefrem Nenadovich
11 - Jovanka Milovanovich
12 - Mirko Petrovich-Njegosh, Great Voevoda of Montenegro (1820 - 1867)
13 - Stane Martinovich (1824 - 1894)
14 - Voevoda Petar Vukotich
15 - Jelena Vojvodich
4th Generation
16 - Serbian Peasant Petronije Jovanovich + 1787 (killed by his son Djordje )
17 - Milica Zivkovich ( + 1811 )
18 - nn Jovanovich
19 -
20 - nn Nenadovich
21 -
22 - nn Milovanovich
23 -
24 - Stanko Petrovich-Njegosh
25 - Kristina Vrbitza
26 - nn Martinovich
27 -
28 - nn Vukotich
29 -
30 - Tadija Vojvodich
31 -

Close relatives of suitable age (+/- 5 years )
Brothers:
Djordje - 3
Alexander - 4

Aunts and Uncles
Xenia + 3
Vera - 3
Petar - 5

2
Introduction
--- In the chronological listing of events in the following chapters, important family occasions such as weddings and funerals are always noted. With births of the closest relatives, these were all occasions for visiting one's relatives. Are also registered family events occurring in childhood or adolescence since children were often taken along by their parents to meet relatives, as occasions to arrange suitable marriages and make friends of their age. Something not too easy in the case of Jelena Karadjordjevich, due to the frequent dynastic upheavals in the Balkans !
For the years of exile, I have noted down all family events, even when the generation gap was growing, as she always wanted to hear news about most of her relatives.
I have omitted in this Episodic Biography of aunt "Jabe" the usual Personality Summary "Episode" for a very simple reason. I have been unable to discover in any source available;e to me the slightest reference to the personality of aunt "Jabe". I have known aunt Jabe since my childhood but had never seen her frequently. I remember only her rather broad face and she seemed to me very "Montenegrin", she did resemble her aunts Helen, Queen of Italy and Xenia of Montenegro. I vaguely feel that she had a rather patronising manner of speaking with my father - just an impression.
Not tall, rather plumpish with eyes like burning coal, intelligent, vivacious. Very congenial when she spoke of events of her life. An overwhelming personality. Among other things she told Sveva, that she had seen the Tsar's four daughters with heads shaved after their illness at Tsarskoe Selo. I do not know how truthful she was in the details ls.

--- Identification of sources of Nicholas Romanov:
(HP) - Nicholas Romanov - Opinions, comments and sundry readings.
(From 1 to 9999) = Book property of HP..
(From 1 to 9999 + HP) - HP comments complementing text of source.
(From 10000 to 199990 - Books and sources NOT property of HP.
(From 20001 to 29999) = Conversations recorded by HP.
(43/...... ) = Documentation in archives of HP.

3
Childhood and Adolescence
1884
--- Birth of Jelena Karadjordjevich at Rijeka, Montenegro, on November 5 n.st. (HP)

1884 / 1885
--- A photograph identified by Princess Xenia of Montenegro. (Image n°1) The caption on the back mentions that the photograph was been made on the day "Jabe" was christened. And indeed, on the left can seen a procession of women and men, a group of members of the clergy, one or two horses mounted by men, a man or two bearing a standart. All are followiung a zigzagging path which disappears behind the larger whitewashed house in which lived Peter Karadjordjevich and his wife Zorka. On several windows can be seen flags. O)ne of the flags seems a Karadjordjevich banner. The path reappears from behind the larger house and reaches the church. Some men can be seen besides the church. Over the entrance to the church a small belfry topped by a flagstaff flying the Monetegrin flag. Jabe was the first grandchild of Prince Nikola and Princess Milena, born when Milena was 37 and her daughter Zorka was not yet 20. After the birth of her first granddaughter........

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