Извештај Богдана Раденковића о боравку Виктора Машкова у Косовској Митровици, Ибарском Колашину и Новом Пазару 1901. године (I)
The Report of Bogdan Radenković on the Visitation of Viktor Maškov in Kosovska Mitrovica, Ibarski Kolašin and Novi Pazar in 1901 (I)

Summary/Abstract: Bogdan Radenković (1874-1917) was a versatile personality whose political and cultural-educational activity left a great mark among Serbs in Osman’s Empire in the last two decades of its existence. Educated and trained in Osman’s Empire, with the knowledge of French, Turkish, and Albanian language, besides Serbian, intrepid and always ready for action and victim, exceptional „national labourer“ was the associate of those working on the liberation of Serbs from the Turkish slavery. He was the professor of Skoplje grammar school, secretary of Skoplje metropolis, president of the Central Board of the Serbian Democratic League, candidate for Raškoprizrenski metropolitan, and secretly the organizer and leader of the Serbian Revolutionary Organization. Together with Milan Rakić, he was among the first ones entered the liberated Pristine in 1912. The report we are publishing appeared during the July in 1901, as a result of the visitation of the Russian consul Viktor Maškov in Kosovska Mitrovica, Ibarski Kolašin, and Novi Pazar. Crimes committed over the Serbian population in these areas, and under the pretext of quest for arms, urged Serbian and Russian diplomacy to act promptly so as to avoid even worse consequences. Russian consul from Skopje had been directed to Kosovska Mitrovica, who was accompanied by Bogdan Radenković, and who was, except a translator, guide, and the most probably a notary public who noted down everyday complaints of the maltreated population. The visitation of the consul Viktor Maškov, except it disclosed difficult position of Serbs in Old Serbia, managed to accelerate the process of reforms in Osman’s Empire, and the resolution of Serbian issue as well. The first step toward that direction was the opening of Russian consulate in Kosovska Mitrovica.

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