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ILIYA GARASHANIN (1812-1874)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 456 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GARASHANIN (1812-1874)  , Servian statesman, was the son of a Servian See also:peasant, who made See also:money by exporting See also:cattle and pigs to See also:Austria and by his intelligence and See also:wealth attained to a certain See also:influence in the See also:country . He wanted to give his son as See also:good an See also:education as possible, and therefore sent him to See also:Hungary to learn first in a See also:Greek and then in a See also:German school . Highly gifted, and having passed through a See also:regular although somewhat See also:short school training, the See also:young Iliya very quickly came to the front . In 1836 See also:Prince Milosh appointed him a See also:colonel and See also:commander of the then just organized regular See also:army of See also:Servia . In 1842 he was called to the position of assistant to the See also:home See also:minister, and from that See also:time until his retirement from public See also:life in 1867 he was repeatedly minister of home affairs, distinguishing himself by the See also:energy and See also:justice of his See also:administration . But he rendered far greater services to his country as minister for See also:foreign affairs . He was the first Servian statesman who had a See also:political See also:programme, and who worked to replace the See also:Russian See also:protectorate over Servia by the See also:joint protectorate of all the See also:great See also:powers of See also:Europe . As minister for foreign affairs in 1853 he was decidedly opposed to Servia joining See also:Russia in See also:war against See also:Turkey and the western powers . His See also:anti-Russian views resulted in Prince See also:Menshikov, while on his See also:mission in See also:Constantinople, 1853, peremptorily demanding from the prince of Servia (See also:Alexander Karageorgevich) his dismissal . But although dismissed, his See also:personal influence in the country secured the See also:neutrality of Servia during the See also:Crimean War . He enjoyed esteem in See also:France, and it was due to him that France proposed to the See also:peace See also:conference of See also:Paris (1856) that the old constitution, granted to Servia by Turkey as suzerain and Russia as See also:protector in 1839, should be replaced by a more See also:modern and liberal constitution, framed by a See also:European See also:international See also:commission . But the agreement of the powers was not secured .

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Garashanin induced Prince Alexander Karageorgevich to convoke a See also:national See also:assembly, which had not been called to meet for ten years . The assembly was convoked for St See also:Andrew's See also:Day 1858, but its first See also:act was to dethrone Prince Alexander and to recall the old Prince Milosh Obrenovich . When after the See also:death of his See also:father Milosh (in 186o) Prince See also:Michael ascended the See also:throne, he entrusted the premiership and foreign affairs to Iliya Garashanin . The result of their policy was that Servia was given a new, although somewhat conservative, constitution, and that she obtained, without war, the evacuation of all the fortresses garrisoned by the See also:Turkish troops on the Servian territory, including the fortress of See also:Belgrade (1867) . Garashanin was preparing a See also:general rising of the See also:Balkan nations against the Turkish See also:rule, and had entered into confidential arrangements with the Rumanians, Bosnians, Albanians, Bulgarians and Greeks, and more especially with See also:Montenegro . But the See also:execution of his plans was frustrated by his sudden resignation (at the end of 1867), and more especially by the assassination of Prince Michael a few months later (the loth of See also:June 1868) . Although he was a Conservative in politics, and as such often in conflict with the See also:leader of the Liberal See also:movement, Yovan Ristich, he certainly was one of the ablest statesmen whom Servia had in the 19th See also:century . (C .

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