Šćepan Mali

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Ruler of Montenegro

PoliticiansLived 1800 to 1773 · aged -27

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Šćepan Mali, translated as Stephen the Little, was the first and only "tsar" of Montenegro, ruling the country as an absolute monarch from 1768 until his death.

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Photos 9

1761 portrait of Peter III of Russia

Approximate political map of the Balkans c. 1750, Montenegro, the small country marked with green at the centre of the map, was surrounded by the Ottoman Empire to the east and the Republic of Venice to the west

1780s portrait of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia

1780s portrait of Yuri Vladimirovich Dolgorukov

Portrait of Sava Petrović, Prince-Bishop of Montenegro 1735-1782

The Donji Brčeli Monastery, where Šćepan held his court and where he was murdered in 1773

Etching of Stefano Zannowich (here under the pseudonym "Castriotto of Albania"), who wrote the first biography on Šćepan Mali (published in 1784) and at one point impersonated the deceased "tsar"

Politicians born in the 1800s 6

José María Melo49.9 Lord Charles Wellesley49.6

Manuel Felipe de Tovar50.1

Georg Gottfried Gervinus49.6

Felipe Santiago Salaverry50.1

Ludwig von Benedek49.6

About this person

Šćepan Mali, translated as Stephen the Little, was the first and only "tsar" of Montenegro, ruling the country as an absolute monarch from 1768 until his death. Of unclear origins, Šćepan became the ruler of Montenegro through a rumour that he was in fact the deposed Russian emperor Peter III, who had died several years before Šćepan surfaced in the Balkans.