The exhibition “Our fellow citizen Queen Draga: between glory and anathema” in Niš

Her story, even without creative intervention, by itself, resembles a scenario that any theater or film director would wish for.

The life of a beautiful and well-read Rudničan woman who marries early, obeying her father’s will to the detriment of her girlhood dreams, becomes a widow early on and after the death of her parents takes care of her younger sisters and brothers, gets a new turn by entering the service of Queen Natalija. The affection and love of the young Serbian king was a kind of compensation for premature life’s misfortunes. The current pleasure of royal life ended with a bloody end that also marked the end of the Obrenović era. Such a life, or at least one of its segments, is more than suitable to be transferred to a celluloid strip, a novel or an exhibition.

The Museum of the Rudnica-Takovo region paid attention to a famous fellow citizen, the granddaughter of Nikola Milićević Lunjevica, the educated and aloof Queen Draga, who changed the Serbian historical scene. As silent observers of history, our task is, as always, to present the facts, and this time the senior curators Ana Ranković and Aleksandar Marušić did this by presenting, first of all, the sad historical moment of the May Revolution, but not forgetting everything that made Draga Obrenović – our fellow citizen Queen Draga.

This representative exhibition accompanied by a rich exhibition catalog will be opened on Thursday at 1 pm in the National Museum in Nis.

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