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Her parents, Josip Marović and Marija Ivanović, were members of a Serbo-Montenegrin colony of Boka Kotorska (Montenegro) in Venice.
His grandfather Đorđe Vasiljević Vojinović (1760-1821) was a Russian military officer, he later returned to Boka Kotorska, and in 1800, in Ancona, he married Kasandra Angeli-Radovani from a Roman Catholic family.
He built, and in 1382 opened the ports of Brstanik near Počitelj and Sveti Stefan, now known as Herceg Novi in Bay of Kotor Monte Negro as a line of defence from Dubrovnik and Kotor.