Located about twenty kilometers from the center of Gornji Milanovac, on the road to Kragujevac, lies the village of Gornja Crnuća, where “the first Serbian prince after Kosovo”, Miloš Obrenović, ruled from 1815 to 1817.
A book about his life in Crnuća and the unbreakable connection between this Rudnik village and the Serbian dynasty, “Prince Miloš and Crnuća,” authored by Jevđa A. Jevđić, was published seven years ago.
“The story of Miloš and Crnuća begins after the fall of the First Serbian Uprising. Unlike many national leaders, Miloš did not want to cross the Danube and Sava, but remained among his people, who loved him for this move. He chose the Rudnik village of Crnuća for its seclusion. According to Vuk Karadžić’s tradition, when Karađorđe’s uprising failed, Miloš and his brother Milan found themselves in Brusnica, which was on the Turkish road, so they sought refuge in Šarani. Realizing that he was not sufficiently hidden from the Turks even there, Miloš moved with his household to Crnuća, right into the Rudnik mountain and there, in a valley in a large wilderness, built a house and several buildings around it”, Jevđa Jevđić states in his book.
According to Vuk Karadžić, the Second Serbian Uprising was actually raised in Crnuća, not in Takovo. On the feast of Cveti in 1815, a people’s assembly was held in Takovo where it was agreed that the people would rise up against the Turks and that Miloš would be the leader.
“However, the uprising itself was raised in front of the palace, more precisely Miloš’s house in Crnuća, in front of which Miloš came out in princely attire with a raised banner in his hand and uttered the famous sentence ‘Here I am, here is war with the Turks for you’ and from there he set out to liberate and rebuild the Serbian state and statehood”, writes Jevđić.
In his book, he further cites the testimony of the Austrian traveler Felix Kanitz, who in his book “Serbia” states that in Crnuća even then (1868) the Marinkovićs lived who had given their house with a garden to Prince Miloš, and in return asked that the prince pay half a ducat per year to the Vraćevšnica monastery. Even today in Crnuća, there are Marinkovićs who claim to descend from Radič Postupović, a Serbian nobleman from the time of Despot Stefan and his nephew Đurađ Branković.
Prince Miloš chose Kragujevac as his capital in 1817, but the Obrenovićs’ affection for this village and the first capital of Serbia remained until the last Serbian ruler from this dynasty, which is also reflected in the move of King Alexander who, on January 21, 1899, declared the Gornjo-Crnućka municipality in memory of the former capital.
According to historical data, Prince Miloš Obrenović, who proposed to Ljubica Vukomanović in Srezojevci at Dičina, had eight children with her, four sons and four daughters. Historians of that time claim that the ruler of Serbia had more than 40 direct descendants in his lifetime.
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