The first interdisciplinary project of the National Museum of Montenegro, entitled "Eights", will begin today at 12 noon in the Montenegrin Art Gallery "Miodrag Dado Đurić" with a lecture by Dr. Boban Batrićević about Montenegro and the Berlin Congress.
All four museum units are participating in the realization of this project, which will last until the end of the year: Archaeological, Historical, Ethnographic and Art Museum.
"The project will consist of a series of lectures and screenings that will be organized every month until the end of the year, which will mark important dates from Montenegrin and world history related to years with an eight at the end through twelve events," the museum announces, and the coordinators are Filip Kuzman and Vukan Raznatović.
The NMCG says that the Berlin Congress is one of the most important events of the 19th century, and that is why it was chosen as the first of the 12 topics that will be covered.
"His decisions will be reflected in the later period, since the great powers of that time partially solved the problems that disturbed their mutual relations and interests. Called primarily to review the decisions of the San Stefano Peace Treaty after the war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, in which Russia gained enormous influence in the Balkans, the Congress of Berlin also dealt with the situation caused by the outbreak of the so-called The Great Eastern Crisis, when Montenegro and Serbia went to war with the Ottoman Empire. The Congress lasted from June 13 to July 13, 1878 and was presided over by German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Many historians believe that the Berlin Peace Treaty only postponed the conflicts that took place at the beginning of the XNUMXth century, because the appetites of most of its signatories were unsatisfied".
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