Писма митрополита Михаила грофици А. Д. Блудовој: Прилог проучавању руско-српских односа (1871-1874)
Metropolitan Mihailo's Letters to the Countess A. D. Bludova: Contribution to the Study of Russian-Serbian Relations (1871-1874)

Summary/Abstract: After Prince Mihailo’s death, the underaged Prince Milan Obrenovic was brought to the Serbian throne, with the so called Second Regency (1868- 1872) ruling instead of him. In the initial years of the Regency’s rule, due to the lack of trust Petrograd felt about the regents, the Serbian-Russian relations were shaken. Although the Regency made recurrent efforts during 1868 and 1869 to improve the relations with Russia, some noteworthy results with that regard were achieved no earlier than in 1870. In autumn 1871, the juvenile prince paid a visit to the Russian Tsar in Livadia. From that visit on, the Serbian- Russian relations were normalized. Despite the reign being overtaken by Prince Milan in 1872, the Regency Regime in Serbia, embodied in the personalities of Milivoje Petrovic Blaznavac and Jovan Ristic, was preserved until 1874. The paper presents eight letters written by the Metropolitan Mihailo to the Russian countess Antonina Dmitrievna Bludova in the period 1871 to 1874. The documents testify to the fruits of Prince’s visit to Livadia, to the plans plotted in relation to Prince’s trip to Petrograd and his marriage to the Russian Princess, to the relations between the Metropolitan Mihailo and the Russian Consulate in Belgrade, but also to the schooling of Serbian girl-cadets in Russia and opening of Representation of Serbian Orthodox Church in Moscow. The attached letters constitute a contribution to the studies of political, culturaleducational and ecclesiastical liaisons between the Principality of Serbia and the Russian Empire in the period from 1871 to 1874.

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