The promotion of Mihail Borozan's book "Memoirs" was held in the Njegoš library and reading room in Cetinje.
It is an autobiographical work full of interesting historical details and personal experiences of the author who was a participant in the Christmas Uprising of 1918/19, a witness and analyst of many events from the interwar period and World War II.
The reviewer of the edition, historian Dr. Boban Batrićević, assessed that the Memoirs are a book that "enters the social and political scars of the Montenegrin people in their most difficult moments."
"Proto Mihailo Borozan, in the year of his birth (1900), was a participant in several important milestones that determined the development of Montenegrin society, and then he was able to see them through the eyes of an educated man, who belonged to that stratum of the Montenegrin intelligentsia, and as someone who knew many people a court that turned out to be extremely objective," Batrićević said.
Publicist and researcher Slobodan Čukić emphasized the scientific contribution of "Memoir", above all in "numerous, important data that are not found elsewhere in the literature".
"Such, for example, are the details about the Christmas uprising and the events in the Zavala area on the edge of Cetinje, about the dead and wounded insurgents, about the mass arrest of Bokovlja residents on the very first day of Christmas, this is not mentioned anywhere, except here, and their blackout in Cetinje, about punitive expeditions, burning of houses, confiscation and destruction of livestock of insurgent families, about repression that continued in the following years, which Mihailo explicitly talks about," Čukić said.
The organizer of "Memoirs", Nikola Borozan, pointed out that the book is not for sale and cannot be bought, but only given as a gift, which, he believes, would be the wish of the author himself.
The promotion was also attended by the author's son Petar Borozan, who thanked everyone who participated in the preparation of the book.
He also highlighted the significant role of Špir Mudreša, who published the first printed edition of his father Mihail's Memoirs.
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