Metadata: Collection of Mita Petrović
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Archives of Serbia
- Holding institution (official language):
- Државни архив Србије (Državni arhiv Srbije)
- Postal address:
- Karnegijeva 2, 11000 Belgrade
- Phone number:
- (+381) 11 3370-781
- Web address:
- https://arhivsrbije.rs/
- Email:
- office@archives.org.rs
- Reference number:
- AS-ZMP
- Title:
- Collection of Mita Petrović
- Title (official language):
- Збирка Мите Петровића
- Creator/accumulator:
- Petrović, Mita
- Date(s):
- 1711/1899
- Language:
- Serbian
- Extent:
- 7.75 linear metres (62 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The documents in this collection are described in four analytical inventories.
Inventory I includes descriptions of documents created between 1711 and 1815, documents created by the National Office from 1816-1820 and documents created by the Prince’s Office from 1816 until 1840.
Inventory II comprises the records of the nahijas (administrative units) in the period between 1816 and 1835: Belgrade nahija, Valjevo nahija, Jagodina nahija, Kosmajsko podunavska nahija, Požarevac nahija, Požega nahija, Rudnik nahija, Smederevo nahija, Užice nahija, Šabac nahija and Ćuprija nahija.
Inventory III describes documents created by military commands, magistrates and courts: Veliko serdarstvo timočko 1833-1935, Dunavsko-timočka command 1836-1839, Aleksinac District Office and Magistrate 1837, Banjski County 1836-1838, Podrinjsko-Savska Military Command 1835-1838, Užice County 1836-1837, Rujan County 1836-1839, Belgrade Police 1837, Belgrade District Office and Magistrate 1837, Municipal Court, People’s County Court 1820-1825, People’s Court 1837-1851, Ćurija County Court 1847-1851, Rudnik County Court 1850, Užice County Court 1851.
Inventory IV includes documents created by Glavno koznačejstvo (the central financial institution) from 1815-1839, the Ministry of Finances 1839-1899 and the Court Martial from 1844.
The records in the collection include those related to the Jewish community in Belgrade and Serbia:
The records of the Prince’s Office include: a letter of Hajim Davičo sent to Prince Miloš, asking for a loan since he was in financial troubles, file no. 498; a letter of Pavle Sretenović sent to Prince Miloš informing him about the financial situation of Hajim Davičo, April 1817, file no. 527; a letter of Gaja Dabić sent to Prince Miloš informing him that he had given 17000 groschen to the servant of Hajim Davičo, February 1815, file no. 803; a letter of Hajim Davičo (in German) sent to Prince Miloš, informing him that he had purchased slippers for sale, July 1825, file no 1718; a letter of general-major Mihaljević to Prince Miloš Obrenović informing him about forged money brought from Zemun to Belgrade by the Jew Menahem Ruso, 1828, file no. 1741; communication of David Haim and Prince Miloš regarding the purchase and delivery of guns from Vienna, June 1833, file no. 2175; report on the greeting of Prince Miloš in Belgrade, December 1933; documents on tax assessments for Christians and Jews, 1834/35, Požarevac, file no. 2305; correspondence between Aleksandar Simić, the Prince’s adjutant, and Prince Miloš regarding the collection of debt from the Prince’s debtor, Davičo the Jew, 1837, file no. 2385.
The records of the Serbian National Court included documents on the debt of Haim Davičo, a merchant from Belgrade, 1819, file no. 6400; a receipt of Emanuel Solaro, a professor, for 700 groschen for six months’ salary, 1830, file no. 6641. The central financial institution preserved a list of 133 tax payers in Belgrade in 1837, file no.8030; a letter of S Pijade sent to the merchant Mita Petrović, president of the Tax Administration, 1896, file no.8381; a letter sent to Mita Petrović, a member of the Tax Administration, recommending a friend Pinter to him, 1884, file no. 8438.
- Archival history:
- The collection was purchased in 1911.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Mita Petrović was the president of the Tax Administration. He collected documents from various institutions while writing the book ‘Finansije i ustanove obnovljene Srbije do 1842’ (Finances and renewed institutions of Serbia until 1842), which was published in three volumes. Even though the collection comprises documents gathered from various fonds in the archives, according to Mita Petrović’s wishes the documents were held in a separate collection named after him.
- Access points: locations:
- Serbia
- Access points: persons/families:
- Davičo, Haim
- Pijade, S
- Ruso, Menahem
- Solar, Emanuel
- System of arrangement:
- The collection was arranged according to its creators.
- Finding aids:
- The following finding aids are available: summary inventory; analytical inventory; name and theme register.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Dragana Mitrašinović; Historical Archives of Belgrade; 2020
