Stevan "Saraga" Lukačević ( sr-cyrl, Стеван "Сарага" Лукачевић; 1860-1932) was a
Montenegrin politician, merchant and actor. He served as
mayor of
Podgorica between 1893 and 1895.
He originally immigrated from
Serbia to Podgorica. He produced pearl essence from the scales of
bleaks. He dried the scales and exported large quantities of his product to Serbia.
Lukačević was one of the founders of the Podgorica Theater Society (''Podgoričko pozorišno društvo'').
Lukačević was featured in the play "Maksim Crnojević" (written by Serbian playwright
Laza Kostić) in the title role as Maksim Crnojević. The play was performed in Podgorica ca. 5 April 1885 (
Orthodox Easter
Easter,Traditional names for the feast in English are "Easter Day", as in the ''Book of Common Prayer''; "Easter Sunday", used by James Ussher''The Whole Works of the Most Rev. James Ussher, Volume 4'') and Samuel Pepys''The Diary of Samuel P ...
). A writer for the
Glas Crnogorca newspaper in Podgorica wrote in his report that despite the barriers of local dialects and the difficulty of fully mimicking everyone's movements, the actors played their roles fairly well. They also noted that foreigners watching the play could not believe that the actors were debutants.
Lukačević was a relative of
Montenegrin king
Nicholas I and a descendant of Serbian revolutionary
Karađorđe Petrović.
References
1860 births
1932 deaths
Montenegrin politicians
Mayors of Podgorica
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