Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch ( , Serbian Latin : " Božidar Karađorđević " ; 11 January 1862 – 14 April 1908 ) , Serbian artist and writer on art , world traveller , and member of the Serbian Karađorđević dynasty . He gave singing and drawing lessons and later earned his living as an art critic and translator . He was a contributor to the " Encyclopædia Britannica " , " Figaro " , " La Revue de Paris " , " Revue des Revues " , " Magazine of Art " , and other publications . Life account . Prince Bojidar belonged to the senior line of the Karađorđević dynasty . He was the second son of Prince George Karageorgevich and his wife Sarka Anastasijević ( his older brother was Prince Alexis Karageorgevich ) . His grandfather Prince Alexa was the eldest son of Karađorđe Petrović , the founder of the House of Karađorđević and leader of the First Serbian Uprising . Prince Bojidar lived in France for most of his life as the members of the Karađorđević dynasty were in exile after Prince Alexander Karađorđević lost the Serbian throne in 1858 . Bojidar travelled a lot and went on a number of trips around the world . He served in the French Army and fought in the French campaign at Tonking and was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honour . To earn a living he gave singing and drawing lessons before becoming a translator and journalist . During one of his trips abroad , he travelled extensively around India , visiting thirty eight cities . He wrote a book about his experiences called " Enchanted India " in which he offered an account of the Indian people , their religious rites , and other ceremonies . He also provided detailed descriptions of the Indian landscape and buildings . He also translated works of Tolstoy and Hungarian dramatist Mór Jókai . Taking an interest in art , he visited Munich , Dresden , and Berlin and spent some months in Italy ; afterwards he settled at Paris . There he regularly contributed articles to the " Figaro " , " La Revue de Paris " , the " Magazine of Art " ( Ilya Repin , Jules Bastien - Lepage ) , including a biography of Marie Bashkirtseff in the " Encyclopædia Britannica , 11th Edition , Vol . III " . Like all journalists he was drawn to the cabaret s of Montmartre , the haunt of artists , writers , poets , philosophers . It was there he met and befriended French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt , pioneer of modern dance Loïe Fuller , French poet , novelist and noted orientalist Judith Gautier , Suzanne Meyer - Zundel , Austrian composer Hugo Wolf , painter and illustrator Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec , and founder of the Ballets Russes Sergei Diaghilev . In his later years Prince Karadjordjevitch turned his attention in decoration , and executed panels and medallions for a Paris atelier as a designer , sculptor , painter and silversmith , and often spent time with Georges Lacombe , Émile Bernard , Paul Sérusier and other members of Les Nabis . Karageorgevitch ' s paintings , illustrations , watercolors and silversmith works were first exhibited in Belgrade in 1908 . As a journalist and a publicist he advocated the emancipation of all Slavs and Romanians under the Habsburg Monarchy ; he also favoured the emancipation of the small states in the south - east of Europe , particularly Serbian lands , from Turkish supremacy . Prince Karadjordjevitch , who is known to a wider circle as a friend of writer Pierre Loti and the great Russian artist Marie Bashkirtseff , published some reminiscences , " La Vie Multiple , " and " Notes sur L ' Inde " , both issued posthumously . Marie Bashkirtseff ' s friend since adolescence , Karadjordjevitch stood by her side during her last days and he was present at her deathbed . She was only 25 when she died , a victim of tuberculosis , in 1884 . On the 20th anniversary of her death , in 1904 January edition of " Revue des Revues " , Karadjordjevitch would describe Bashkirtseff ' s last moments : " Marie rises a bit , releases a soft sigh , the sigh of tiny children when waking , and two thick tears roll down her cheek . . . then her head falls again into the pillow . " He died at Versailles on the 14th of April 1908 .