Mina Lazarević Nikšić

Mina Lazarević Nikšić (Serbian: Мина Лазаревић Никшић), also known by the pseudonym Mališa Bućić (Малиша Бућић), was a Herzegovinian serdar and delegate in Russia, representing Morača and the Serbs of the Sanjak of Herzegovina.[1]

Nikšić was born in Trebjesa near Nikšić, and joined the hajduks (brigands), he was forced to take refuge in Ljevišta in Morača in 1791 from where he continued with brigandage.[2] Nikšić travelled to St. Petersburg in 1794 with Morača archimandrite Aksentije Šundić.[3] The Trebješani tribe revolted against the Ottomans and allied themselves with other tribes of Old Herzegovina and Brda in the 1790s.[4] Nikšić joined Russian service and organized a colonist migration to Novorossiya of Serbs from Montenegro and Herzegovina.[5] In 1803 Nikšić and obervajda Ovan Tjoti arrived at Odessa to scan the area foor good settlements.[6] Nikšić arrived at Odessa in 1804 with 97 people that were then settled in Tiraspol, where he received a great estate and 1,000 rubles.[6] When the Russo-Turkish War broke out in 1806, Nikšić gathered a volunteer unit and reported to general Mihailo Miloradovich at Bucharest in November 1807.[7]

A second migration of 16 families of Montenegrin Serbs came in May 1815 that at first lived beside Bulgarians, but were moved the next year to Nikšić's settlement.[6]

See also

  • Sava Ljubiša (fl. 1798–d. 1842), Orthodox archimandrite and Montenegrin envoy to Russia

References

  1. ^ Ђорђевић, Владан (1912). Црна Гора и Аустрија: у XVIII веку. Српска краљевска академија. p. 160.
  2. ^ Karadžić, Vuk Stefanović (1958). Pjesme junačke novijih vremena o vojevanju za slobodu. Prosveta. p. 603.
  3. ^ Dimitrijević, Stevan M. (1922). Građa za srpsku istoriju iz ruskih arhiva i biblioteka. Srpska kraljevska akademija. p. 272, 272, 311.
  4. ^ Глас. Научно дело. 1971. pp. 251, 267–269.
  5. ^ Rudi︠a︡kov, P. M. (1995). Seoba Srba u Rusiju u 18. veku. Služben list SRJ. p. 147. ISBN 978-86-355-0250-2.
  6. ^ a b c Земља и људи. Vol. 22. Друштво. 1972. p. 29.
  7. ^ Глас. Научно дело. 1971. pp. 292–293.
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