Most historians believe that the Serbs and other southern Slavs migrated to the Balkan peninsula from an area roughly where modern Ukraine is located today. What many people do not realize, is that a migration of Serbs and other Balkan peoples contributed to the events that led to the emergence of this "krajina" or frontier on the south flank of the Russian Empire.
Besides the Serbian expats that can be found hanging out at a few Serbian restaurants in Kiev and Kharkov, one of the few remaining signs of once Serbian settlements in Ukraine is the village of "Slovianoserbsk" (Ukrainian: Слов'яносербськ/Russian: Славяносербск) located in the Lugansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. From 1753 to 1764, it was the capital of Slavo-Serbia, one of the Serbian military colonies on the Russian Empire's frontier.
Another famous colony was located in the modern province of Kirovograd called "Nova Serbiya" or New Serbia (Ukrainian: Нова Сербія, Serbian: Нова Србија, Russian: Новая Сербия). Today there still stands a museum with the gravestone and epitaph for Peter Tekeli (Russian: Петр Авраамович Текели, Serbian: Петар Поповић Текелија) a Russian General of Serb origins.
No comments:
Post a Comment