Околности изградње велике цркве манастира Савина у Боки Которској 18. века
Circumstances in Which the Savina Monastery Big Church Was Constructed in the Bay of Kotor in the 18th Century

Summary/Abstract: The text deals with the archive material depicting the construction process of the Savina Monastery Big Church (1777–1797). The original materials were synthetized from the Monastery books, regularly kept from mid-XVIII century, mostly from the Book of Expenses from 1777. Making use of favorable social and political circumstances, more reluctant involvement of Russia in the Balkans, the 1768–1774 Russo-Turkish war, big migrations of the population from Dalmatia and the Bay of Kotor in the 1770s, the general economic crisis of the Republic, resulting in certain easiness and tolerance towards Orthodox Christians, the Savina fraternity finally managed to receive approval from the Venetian authorities for the construction of the Big Church (1776). Following the construction of the Big Church, according to given data, we also assembled a picture about the life in the Monastery, circumstances, problems, activities and efforts of the Savina fraternity, as well as numerous accompanying events, which marked the two¬decade erection of the Savina Monastery Big Church, the zion of the Orthodox people in the XVIII century Bay of Kotor, in the absence of the Diocese of Dalmatia, and the Bay of Kotor under foreign Venetian rule.

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