Sava Vladislavich

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Sava Vladislavich
Vladislavich on a 2023 stamp of Serbia
Born(1669-01-16)16 January 1669
Gacko, Ottoman Empire
Died17 June 1738(1738-06-17) (aged 69)
Saint Petersburg, Tsardom of Russia
Occupation(s)Diplomat, trader

Count Sava Lukich Vladislavich-Raguzinsky (

Qing Empire until the mid-19th century. He penned a number of pamphlets, monographs, treaties and letters concerned with liberating the lands of the Slavs, then occupied by the Ottoman Empire and the forces of Leopold I
.

Background

Vladislavich was born in 1669, in the village of

Serb landlord. The family was driven out from Gacko by the local Turks and settled in the Republic of Ragusa.[1] His father's involvement in trade allowed Sava to be sent to the Republic of Venice, then Spain and France where he acquired broad education. The well-being of the citizens of Ragusa depended on maritime commerce; Sava Vladislavich was no exception. With his knowledge and monetary assistance from his father, he set out on his own trading venture.[1]

Russian service

A commercial project brought the young merchant to

Nezhin was made the centre of his commercial operations. In 1710, he received the rank of court adviser.[1]

At the time Russia did not have access to the warm sea, and the ports in the

St. Petersburg to have a Russian port in the north, so as not to depend on the blackmail of Western traders who determined the prices of warehouses, had a monopoly on trade and kept Russia captive. However, the northern climate was severe as always, so Petar tried to go south. He asked Vladislavich to determine where ports could be built on the Black Sea coast. That project had very far-reaching consequences for the development of the Black Sea Fleet, which was made on the basis of Vladislavich's first report.[2]

The Battle of Poltava

On 8 July 1708 the Battle of Poltava took place. It is alleged that Vladislavich, with his skill, de facto saved Peter in a conflict with King Charles XII of Sweden. The Swedes agreed with the Turks to attack Russia on two fronts, but Vladislavich found out about it from trusted intelligence sources and told Peter once he arrived from Constantinople in 1708. The Russian tsar was furious because the conflict had already begun to brew. The count asked him for money to bribe the Turks, who had already been bribed by the Swedes. When asked by Peter what he would do if he failed, Vladislavich answered that the only pledge he could offer was his head. Peter accepted the proposal and the matter was settled.[2]

The Balkans

The "Illyrian Count" (as Vladislavich liked to style himself) maintained trade contacts with fellow Serbs and was under the impression that they would rise in revolt against the Sultan as soon as the Tsar invaded the

Having launched the invasion in 1711, Peter sent him on a mission to Moldavia and Montenegro, whose population Vladislavich was expected to incite to rebellion. Little came of these plans, despite the assistance of a pro-Russian colonel, Michael Miloradovich (the ancestor of Mikhail Miloradovich). There has been preserved an inscription from that time, in a chronicle:[citation needed
]

In the year 1711 Mikhail Miloradovich came to Montenegro, to the great misfortune of the Monastery and of Montenegro.... [for Vizir Kiuprili in 1714] razed Montenegro and destroyed the church and the Monastery.

Venice

From 1716 to 1722, Vladislavich resided in

Teodor Konstanty Lubomirski, Anselm Franz, 2nd Prince of Thurn and Taxis
, and Count Charachin.

St. Petersburg
.

Among many tasks, Sava Vladislavich had, politically, the most important task for Russia, and that is the establishment of a

Vatican archives.[2]
The Russians have only occasional Vladislavich report on the progress of negotiations.

Treaty of Kyakhta

Vladislavich was made ambassador plenipotentiary to China on 18 June 1725.

Treaty of Kyakhta, which also incorporated Vladislavich's proposal on the construction of an Orthodox chapel in Beijing.[5]

Viewing the commonly agreed border as an "everlasting demarcation line between the two empires",

Qing Empire
. In a secret memorandum (1731), Vladislavich cautioned the Russian government against ever going to war with China.

Writings

In 1722, Sava Vladislavich published his most famous work, a translation in Russian of

Mavro Orbin's Il regno de gli Slavi (1601; The Realm of the Slavs), which included a long passage on Kosovo. It was a tremendous sensation in Russia and the Balkans and attracted the attention and discussion of all cultured society. It was said that "nowhere was there a rather large library that did not have a copy of Sava Vladislavich's translation of Orbini."[citation needed
]

Legacy

According to Serbian poet and diplomat Jovan Dučić, descendant of Sava's either half-brother or first cousin Duka (whence the eponymic family name Dučić), "Sava Vladislavich occupied a distinguished position among Russian diplomats in the eighteenth century. During two and a half decades, he took part in all important events of the Russian empire as a legate of the Czar (Peter the Great) and Czarina (Catherine I of Russia)."[7]

The fortress of Troitsko-Savsk (now Kyakhta) was named after him at the time when he was negotiating a second treaty in 1727 between Russia and China. The historian Marie–Janine Calic describes him as an "intercultural mediator par excellence".[8][9]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Diplomata Petra I Velikog Sava Vladislavić Raguzinski". rts.rs (in Serbian). Radio and Television of Serbia. 7 July 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "SVETSKI a NAŠ: Srpski grof koji je osvojio ruskog cara, turskog sultana, papu i italijanskog kompozitora! | Serbiantimes.info". SerbianTimes. 20 October 2020.
  3. ^ Serbia, RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of. "Зашто је Вивалди посветио оперу грофу из Херцеговине". www.rts.rs. Retrieved 15 October 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ISBN 9781684172009
    .
  5. ISBN 0-7656-0661-5
    . Page 169.
  6. ISBN 0-674-01684-X
    . Page 250.
  7. ^ Jovan Dučić, Grof Sava Vladislavić: jedan Srbin diplomat na dvoru Petra Velikog i Katarine I, Beograd-Pitsburg 1942
  8. ISBN 9789004435445
    .
  9. ISBN 9780674983922
    .

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