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Draft:Maksim Krstic

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Maksim Krstić (Serbian Cyrillic: Максим Крстић) was a voivode during the liberation movement in Serbia in 1804 under the leadership of Karađorđe.[1]

Biography

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Maksim Krstić was born in Bosnia and moved from there to Ub. During the First Serbian Uprising he was among the first to join the liberation movement and became the voivode of Sokolski borderland.

His name is mentioned in many battles in Raćevina on the right bank of Drina and around Sokol, the last bastions of the Turkish dominance in the region (it remain in Ottoman possession until Ottomans handed the fortified settlement and the surrounding area to Prince Mihailo Obrenović). In 1813 Maksim Krstić was in Loznica with voivode Petar Moler[2]

In the Second Serbian Uprising during the time of Knyaz Miloš there is little mention of him, though in 1844[3] he was a member of the Judiciary in Loznica, near Šabac where the Serbian Hussar revolt (Katanska buna) took place. There he took Pavle Cukić's side, and because it turned out to be the losing side, he was imprisoned in Valjevo.

Later, he was released on the behest of the Principality of Serbia's Minister of Justice Anastas Nenadović and Minister of Finance Acika Nenandović[4]. Katić then went to live as a pauper in Ub where he died soon after.[5]

Legacy

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There is a folk song which lauds "Vojvoda Maksim" who defeated the Ottoman army around Drina, and how he saved many Serbian families from Turkish enslavement, and for that reason he gave up all his properties to the poor and needy.

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