Anka Obrenović

Princess Anka Obrenović (later Anka Konstantinović, Serbian Cyrillic: Анка Обреновић; 1 April 1821 – 10 June 1868 [29 May o.s.]) was a member of the Serbian royal Obrenović dynasty as the niece of the dynasty's founder Miloš Obrenović I, Prince of Serbia. She was also a society leader and writer whose translations in 1836 were the first literary works compiled by a woman to be published in Serbia. She was the inspiration for a poem by renowned Croatian poet Antun Mihanović, who had wished to marry her when she was 16 and he 41. In 1860, she established one of the first Serbian salons in her home in Belgrade. She was also known as "Anka pomodarka" ("Anka the fashionable").

Anka Obrenović
Princess of Serbia
Born1 April 1821
Serbia
Died10 June 1868 (aged 47)
Belgrade, Serbia
SpouseAlexander Konstantinović
IssueAlexander Konstantinović
Katarina Konstantinović
Simeona Lakhovari (illegitimate)
HouseHouse of Obrenović
FatherJevrem Obrenović
MotherThomanija Bogičević
ReligionSerbian Orthodox
Occupationwriter, society leader

She was assassinated alongside her first cousin Prince Michael III of Serbia, who was the ruling prince of Serbia at the time.

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