Kosta Taušanović

Kosta Taušanović (Aleksinac, May 4, 1854 – Rijeka, January 26, 1902) was a Serbian politician, minister and banker. He studied agriculture in Tábor (then in Austria-Hungary, today in the Czech Republic) and commerce in Hohenheim (Germany). Taušanović was a prominent member of the People's Radical Party, among its founding members and one of the closest collaborators of its leader Nikola Pašić. A Russophile, and an opponent of the Obrenović dynasty, Taušanović was persecuted by the Royal government on several occasions. After the Timok Rebellion (1883) he was, along with many other Radical leaders, sentenced to eight years in prison, but was pardoned in early 1886. He was a negotiator of the Liberal-Radical Coalition of 1886. He was again in trouble with the authorities due to his Radical a

Kosta Taušanović

Kosta Taušanović (Aleksinac, May 4, 1854 – Rijeka, January 26, 1902) was a Serbian politician, minister and banker. He studied agriculture in Tábor (then in Austria-Hungary, today in the Czech Republic) and commerce in Hohenheim (Germany). Taušanović was a prominent member of the People's Radical Party, among its founding members and one of the closest collaborators of its leader Nikola Pašić. A Russophile, and an opponent of the Obrenović dynasty, Taušanović was persecuted by the Royal government on several occasions. After the Timok Rebellion (1883) he was, along with many other Radical leaders, sentenced to eight years in prison, but was pardoned in early 1886. He was a negotiator of the Liberal-Radical Coalition of 1886. He was again in trouble with the authorities due to his Radical a