Simeon Piščević
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Simeon Piščević (
and imperial Russian general.Biography
Originally from the famed Serbian Paštrovići tribe, the Piščević family took their name from their own native village of Pišči. During the Great Migration of 1690, the Piščević family (in question) were soldiers in the Austrian service. Simeon's grandfather, Gavril(o) Piščević, was a light infantry officer on the Military Frontier dividing the Ottoman and Habsburg empires. Simeon's father Stevan Piščević was also a Military Frontier officer in the service of Empress Maria Theresa. His mother was from the famous Vitković family and Simeon went to school away from his parents' home in the Petrovaradin šanac (later to become Novi Sad), lodging with his uncle, Sekula Vitković, who in 1731 was appointed regimental commander of the Danube Serbian Militia.
Simeon Piščević received his education in Šid,
Piščević received his Russian visa four years later (1753), but it would be another three years before he made the move. He first emigrated to Imperial Russia in 1756, ending up in the Russian Imperial Army.
All Serbian settlements were called "retrenchments" in the popular idiom, although only a few of them were fortified. Piščević wrote that such districts (oblast) as Hlyns'k, Krylov, and Kryukiv in today's Ukraine were the only fortified places in the Pandur regiment. Simeon Piščević left a most vivid description of General Jovan Horvat's broad use of powers. He refers to the latter as "our absolute and tyrannical ruler" and, sometimes with indignation, sometimes with envy for Horvat's versatility, quotes many episodes, shocking even to contemporaries, who were accustomed to the crude rule of singular power.
After the death of his father Stevan who was himself in the Russian service,
Piščević had a son, Aleksandar, who also served in the
Works
"The Diary of General Piščević" (Zapisi Djenerala Piščevića) which first appeared in Russian towards the end of the 19th century, was a model of Serbian eighteenth-century memoirist literature and was ranked equal to the "Memoirs of Prota
See also
- Andrei Miloradovich
- Avram Ratkov
- Jovan Horvat
- Ivan Adamovich
- Nikolay Bogdanov
- Matija Zmajević
- Jovan Šević
- Jovan Albanez
- Peter Tekeli
- Mikhail Miloradovich
- Pavle Julinac
- Marko Ivelich
References
- ^ ISBN 978-86-519-0448-9.
- Jovan Skerlić, Istorija nove srpske književnosti (Belgrade, 1914)
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