Petar Petrovic Njegos

Born in Njeguši, educated in monastery of Cetinje, he became ruler of Montenegro with 17 years. Seeing the necessity for Montenegro to become a modern state, he reconciled quarelling Montenegrin tribes, established Senate, government and courts, started collecting taxes, strengthened the borders of Montenegro, built roads, first school and printing works. And while doing that, he wrote his poems; Mountain wreath is most famous of them. He died in Cetinje; he is burried in a small chapel on top of mountain Lovćen where, later, his mausoleum is built.

Table of contents

1 Major works 2 Quotes 3 External links

Major works

• Hermit of Cetinje (1834)
• Light of microcosm (1845)
• Mountain wreath (English translation) (1847)
• Stephen the Little (Šćepan Mali), the tsar-pretender (1851)

Blessed is he whose name lives forever.
A good reason had he to be alive!

When my wife asks where I have been today,
I will tell her that I've been sowing salt.
And woe to her if she does not believe!

What is man? (And it's his fate to be man!)
A small creature deceived oft by the earth,
yet he sees that the earth is not for him.
Is not the real more puzzling than the dream?

• njegos.org