The Tombstone of Hajduk Veljko

The panel displays a lithograph of the Old Church, tombstones of Veljko and Miljko Petrović, as well as portraits of Sima Milutinović Sarajlija and Vuk Karadžić, who were their contemporaries As a poet and writer, Sima Milutinović Sarajlija was a precursor of our romanticism. He was a teacher, scribe, and...

  • The panel displays a lithograph of the Old Church, tombstones of Veljko and Miljko
    Petrović, as well as portraits of Sima Milutinović Sarajlija and Vuk Karadžić, who were
    their contemporaries
  • As a poet and writer, Sima Milutinović Sarajlija was a precursor of our romanticism. He
    was a teacher, scribe, and judge. He participated in the struggles for the liberation of
    Serbia. During his travels, he passed through Krajina and Ključ. It is assumed that he met
    Hajduk Veljko around 1810
  • Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (Tršić, November 6, 1787 – Vienna, February 7, 1864) was the
    first Serbian linguist in the 19th century, a reformer of the Serbian language, a collector
    of folk creations, and the author of the first Serbian language dictionary. Vuk is the most
    significant figure in Serbian literature of the first half of the 19th century. He participated
    in the First Serbian Uprising as a scribe and official in the Negotin Krajina

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