Ministry of Culture: The Testament has been in Njegoš's billiard room since 1951.

The Ministry of Culture denied that the National Library of Serbia exhibited the original testament of St. Petar Cetinjski and said that the original document with the stamp has been exhibited in Njegoš's billiard room since 1951, reports Radio Antena M.

"The expert examination of this document was done by Jeremija Gagić, two days after the death of Peter I.

For the simple reason that Đorđe Petrović, Njegoš's uncle and governor Vukolaj Radonjić wanted to disprove that will and prevent the installation of Rad Tomović as bishop of Montenegrin. They asked Jeremija Gagić for help and he then confirmed that it was the original will of Petar I Petrović Njegoš.

The testament is in the possession of the National Museum of Montenegro, Archive-Library Department, it has been exhibited in Billiard for permanent exhibitions since 1951, when the Njegoš Museum was founded.

The testament contains the original stamp and seal of the office of Petar I Petrović Njegoš," said the director of the Njegoš Museum, Isidora Kovačević.

Nikodijević: The testament exhibited in the National Library, it was thought that it was lost

In the National Library of Serbia, during March, the testament of St. Petar Cetinjski, who for a time was believed to be lost.

In the hall in front of the Central Reading Room, a paper written by Sima Milutinović Sarajlija, Petar I Petrović's secretary and Njegoš's teacher, is displayed, dated October 18, 1830, the day when Petar I died.

"For a long time, we did not know about the will and it was assumed that it was lost," Dušan Nikodijević, librarian and head of the Archives Collection in the Department of Special Funds of the National Library of Serbia, told "Blic".

What is most significant in this will is that Peter's nephew Rade Tomov Petrović, better known as Bishop Petar II Petrović Njegoš (1813-1851), was designated as the heir, and that further maintenance of the alliance with Russia was ordered.

"In my place, I make and leave my nephew, Rad Tomov Petrović, as the successor manager and custodian of everything that belongs to me and to the Church, and whom I hope will be a man of work and reason, as much as the mild Heavenly Father was pleased to bestow, and whom God and our Emperor and I recommend it to all the people of Montenegro and Berd forever with all my heart and soul," the testament says.

Extract from the will of St. Petar Cetinjski

"If there is someone among our people who does not accept these last words and recommendations of mine as true, or if he does not listen to everything as the whole book says, but dares to cause any disturbance and discord among the people by letter or deed, , whoever he may be, worldly or spiritual, I at the hour of my death hand over to eternal damnation and anathema, both him and his family and birth, so that his trace and home will be dug up and wiped out!

In the same way, may God grant to those who would seek to dissuade you from your loyalty to pious and Christ-loving Russia, and to everyone, if any of you Montenegrins and Berdians find themselves thinking of withdrawing from patronage and hope for a homogeneous and only faithful Russia, may God bless you from him the living flesh fell away and every good temporal and eternal departed!"