Charter of Peter the Great to the Monastery of Rakovica

COLLECTION OF ARCHIVALIA

The Collection of Archivalia preserved in the Historical Museum of Serbia covers the period from 1804 to present days and includes over 2000 items.

Consisting mostly of personal documents related to the outstanding individuals of modern Serbian state, the collection also reveals interesting state and private correspondence characteristic for certain periods of the last two hundred years of Serbian history.

Hence among the documents the charters issued by Austrian and Russian authorities to the prominent Serbs, the most valuable of which is that of Peter the Great issued to the Monastery of Rakovica, then protocols taken at the meetings of Karadjordje and his leaders, private correspondence of Prince Milos and his wife Princess Ljubica, of Prince Mihailo and his wife Princes Julija, obituaries of the members of the Obrenovic family, drafts of laws, receipts, decrees, various certificates, land property titles, IDs, passports, membership cards, stocks, guild certificates, etc.