Milica V. Mišković

Milica V. Mišković (1876-1967) was a Serbian poet. She is best remembered for her patriotic poetry at a time when it was needed the most.

Milica is the daughter of the teacher, writer and state official Dimitrije (Mita) Petrović, whose other children included the painter Nadežda Petrović and the writer Rastko Petrović.

Biography

Milica was born on 10 April 1876 as the third child in the family of Mileva, a teacher, and Dimitrije Mita Petrović, a teacher of drawing and beautiful calligraphy in the district of Čačak, who lost his son Dragutin and daughter Nadežda (a celebrated artist) to premature deaths. Owing to her father's poor health, following the Serbian–Ottoman Wars (1876–1878), the Petrovići moved to Karanovac (today's Kraljevo), where they spent the next five years. Then, they permanently return to the capital, where they settled in a house on Ratarska 32 in Belgrade, whose owner was the patriarch of the family, grandfather Maksim Petrović, a famous Belgrade merchant (Dimitrije's father). The parents nurtured patriotism and developed a love for art in all their children, and their home was a true meeting place for artists and intellectuals. After elementary school, Milica received her education at the Women's Lyceum in Belgrade, and then she went on to study at the Department of History and Geography at the Grande école. From an early age, Milica wrote verses on patriotic themes, publishing them in periodicals. On 14 February 1899, she married Vladimir K. Mišković (1867-1943), a mining engineer. In that marriage, five children were born: Vidosava, married Maglić (1901-1975); Ivanka, married Kolarž (1902-1987); Dragoslava, married Radulović (1904-1980); Milena (1906-1931); and Branimir (1909-1940).

The Mišković family lived for a short time in Senjski Rudnik, and then settled in Cetinjska street in Belgrade. Sharing the fate of the Serbian people in the First World War, the Miškovići went to France via Salonika. The poet's daughters were placed in a Catholic boarding house, and her husband was assigned to a Rhine mine. She sayed with her son in Nice, where Zora, Jela and Ljubica Petrović were also located, with her brother Rastko. On the eve of the Great War and in the whirlwind of war, the poet lost her sisters Anđa, Dragica and Nadežda and her brother Vladimir. She returned to her homeland with her children and husband in 1919. They first lived in Palmotićeva Street in Belgrade, and then bought a house in today's Svetogorska Street. Until her death in 1967, Milica V. Mišković devoted herself entirely to her family. She was buried at the Belgrade New Cemetery.

The literary work

She published the collection of Poems, in which she collected her lyrics, with the help of her sister Nadežda, in 1910 at the publishing House Nova štamparija Davidović.

See also

• Nadežda Petrović
• Rastko Petrović

References

• Translated from Serbian Wikipedia: Милица Мишковић

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