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Aleksandar Mašin

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at their division headquarters. He also ordered the murder of Interior Minister Velja Todorović, who managed to survive, presumed dead. During the interval between the first and the second search for the royal couple, he ordered the capture of members of the government, to prevent the aid to the
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Mašin waited outside the palace for the unsuccessful search for the royal couple in the old palace, and prevented the ploy of General
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General Lazar Petrović, aide-de-camp to Alexander I, who tried to defend the royal couple and died in the attack on the palace.
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28–29 May] 1903, according to plans finalized two days earlier by the conspirators, Mašin spent the afternoon at the
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Immediately after the coup, Mašin was one of the conspirators who became part of the new provisional government, as
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representative, who requested the removal of the bodies of the couple from the palace garden (present-day
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A royal tragedy; being the story of the assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga of Servia
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in 1897. He participated as a military expert in the Serbian delegation sent to the
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At four in the morning he led the group of officers who received the
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to assassinate Queen Draga's two younger brothers. Both were
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demanded that they lose their public jobs to re-establish
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The conspirators against the royal couple, led by Captain
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Serbia Between East and West. The Events of 1903–1908
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Index

Colonel

Serbian Cyrillic
Czech
Belgrade
Principality of Serbia
Kingdom of Serbia
Belgrade New Cemetery
44°48′34″N 20°29′14″E / 44.80944°N 20.48722°E / 44.80944; 20.48722
Principality of Serbia
Kingdom of Serbia
Armed Forces of the Principality of Serbia
Royal Serbian Army

General Staff
Colonel
General Staff
Acting Chief
Serbian–Ottoman Wars (1876–1878)
Serbo-Bulgarian War

Order of Karađorđe's Star with Swords
Order of the White Eagle

Order of the Cross of Takovo

Order of Miloš the Great
Draga Mašin
May Coup
Minister of Construction

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