The ceremonial signing of the Gift Contract, which includes 627 books from the personal library of Professor Zoran Gavrić, took place at the National Museum Kraljevo, on Friday, November 22nd, 2024, at 1 p.m., while on the same day at 6 p.m. the Legacy was presented to the audience in the Gallery of this institution. Donors are Gordana and Sofija Gavrić, and professor Dragan Bulatović and artist Saša Pančić spoke about Zoran Gavrić.
The biography “Church of the Holy Trinity in Kraljevo” published on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the founding of the church, is extensive and provides a wealth of information in the context of the historical environment in which the church lives. It was built at the dawn of freedom by Prince Miloš Obrenović and has the character of a penitential church. After escorting the Turkish troops to Novi Pazar in 1815, Prince Miloš ordered Prince Vasa Popović to prepare the land for the construction of the church. We find it in 1824 as an already completed building. The church lived and suffered together with the people and was rebuilt again and again during its two-century history.
The program was realized in the Legacy of Olivera Radojković Čolović – the family house of Čolović, on Mitrovdan, Friday, November 8th, 2024, the day of family glory of the donor. Through the program, the memory of Olivera and her family is preserved and nurtured, through the idea of a legacy that lives on. The program “On Slava at Olivera’s House” was conceived as a reconstruction of the civic glory in the house of Čolović, which would gather her acquaintances and friends, which was preceded by the consecration of cakes and grain.
The scale of suffering during the allied bombing of Kraljevo in 1944 is evidenced by documents, photographs, as well as authentic sources: lists of the Serbian Orthodox Church, lists of the Catholic County in Kraljevo, German military reports, as well as reports and aerial photographs of veterans of bombing missions preserved on the Internet. So far, the names of 72 victims have been identified.
The deportation of Slovenians was carried out in accordance with Hitler’s order “Make this country German again!”, and according to the guidelines of Heinrich Himmler. The Nazis expelled about ten percent of the entire population from the occupied Slovenian provinces, of which 6,802 people were deported to Serbia, where they lived with Serbian families in villages and towns and shared the fate of the war.
The museum exhibit, accompanied by the catalogue and film of the same name, was realized by the National Museum Kraljevo, which joined the celebration of the jubilee as the territorially competent museum for the municipality of Raška, recognizing the industrial heritage within this complex system as a resource that deserves research, presentation and protection.
The author’s guidance of Dragana Kovačić pointed out the ways in which the composition and plans of graphics of city environments changed over time, due to changes in the city itself brought about by industrialization, as well as the influence of photography that appeared during the 19th century. The audience could get acquainted with striking details, which over time become symbols of cities or accents used in the artistic presentation of city spaces.
Stanislava Jovanović Mindić during the author’s guidance pointed out Serbian-Italian cultural and artistic ties, that is, Serbian artists who found role models and incentives for their creativity in the artistic tradition of Italy.
Mirjana Savić, museum advisor of the National Museum Kraljevo and Ljubinka Škodrić, PhD, senior scientific associate of the Institute for Contemporary History in Belgrade, as the author team of the exhibition “Children in War: Serbian Refugee Homes in Mataruška Banja 1942-1944” of the National Museum Kraljevo and the monograph of the same name, awarded is the “Mihailo Valtrović” award of the Serbian Museum Society Association in the category “to an individual or an author’s team for exceptional results in 2023”.
Petar II Petrović Njegoš undertook his “Grand Tour” through Italy from November 1850 to August 1851, after which he died soon after, in October of the same year. The lecture does not only analyse what Njegoš saw, but also reflects on the ways in which Italian landscapes, cities and artifacts were presented to him.