Sofronije Jugović-Marković (
fl.
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1789) was a Habsburg Serb writer and activist in Russian service, who envisaged the formation of a Serbian protectorate of Russia (similar to Georgia), that would have held all South Slavic territories of the Habsburg stretching to
Istria
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. Jugović sought to crown Grand Duke
Konstantin Pavlovich "Serbian and Bulgarian Tsar Konstantin Nemanjić", after the medieval
Nemanjić dynasty
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. It would continue the legacy of the
Serbian Empire
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.
Life
He was born in what is today
Vojvodina
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, northern Serbia. In 1785, he was one of the inspectors in the controversial murder of
metropolitan Petar Petrović. In 1789
Ivan Radonjić, the governor of Montenegro, wrote for the second time to the Russian Empress Catherine II: "Now, all of us Serbs from Montenegro,
Herzegovina
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,
Banjani,
Drobnjaci
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,
Kuči,
Piperi,
Bjelopavlići
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Geography
The ''Bjelopavl ...
, Zeta,
Klimenti,
Vasojevići
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, Bratonožići,
Peć
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,
Kosovo
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,
Prizren
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,
Albania
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,
Macedonia
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belong to your Excellency and pray that you, as our kind mother, send over Prince Sofronije Jugović." In 1792, he publicly released his views in the work "Serbian Empire and State".
[Vasilije Krestić, ''Great Serbia: truth, misconceptions, abuses'', p. 170, SANU, 2004]
See also
*
Petar I Petrović-Njegoš
Petar I Petrović-Njegoš (; 1748 – 31 October 1830) was the Prince-Bishop of Montenegro from 1784 to 1830 and Exarch (legate) of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro. He was the most popular spiritual and military leader from the Petro ...
*
Šćepan Mali
*
Karađorđe Petrović
Đorđe Petrović (; ; – ), known by the sobriquet Karađorđe (; ), was a Serbian revolutionary leader who led a struggle against the Ottoman Empire during the First Serbian Uprising. He held the title of Grand Vožd of Serbia from 14 ...
*
Stevan Šupljikac
References
18th-century Serbian nobility
Emigrants from the Habsburg monarchy to the Russian Empire
Habsburg Serbs
Serbs of Vojvodina
18th-century births
Year of birth unknown
Pan-Slavism
Serbian writers
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