Čučuk Stana
Čučuk Stana ( Serbian - Cyrillic Чучук Стана , * around 1795 in Sikole , today Serbia , then Ottoman Empire ; † 1849 in Athens ) was a freedom fighter during the First Serbian Uprising and the preparation for the Greek War of Independence and Hajdukin .
Life
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Stana's parents were refugees from Herzegovina . She was born in the village of Sikole near Negotin and had two sisters and a far younger brother. For their protection, the three sisters wore men's clothes when they visited the school in Bela Crkva ( German: Weißkirchen ). Stana no longer put on women's clothes. She was short even for a woman and was therefore nicknamed "Čučuk" (from Turkish küçük = small).
After meeting the voivod leader and Hajduken Veljko Petrović , Stana lived with him in a wild marriage. Armed with a saber and flintlock pistol, she supported him in the fight for freedom against the Ottomans. On the third anniversary of their union, both fought against foreign rule on horseback. Their courage is said to have been legendary. Stana was wounded four times, from bullets and from the blow of a yatagan in the head .
Hajduk Veljko was killed in the battle of Negotin in June 1813, defending the Krajina . Stana is said to have taken command until she too was injured. In the Banat she met the Greek freedom fighter Giorgakis Olympios (Serbian Kapetan Jorgać ). Three years later, around 1817, they married and had three children: Milan, Aleksandar and Jevrosima.
Olympios was one of the commanders when 500 Greeks fought at the Battle of Sculeni on June 29, 1821 against a multiple Ottoman superiority. He fell a little later while defending the Secu monastery at Târgu Neamț .
Stana, a widow at the age of 26, fled with her children to Chotyn, Russia (now Ukraine ). After the end of the Greek Revolution, she went to Athens. The two sons died before their mother. Čučuk Stana died in poverty in 1849. Her grave was cleared after the daughter's death.
reception
The Serbian folk hero Hajduk Veljko is celebrated in folk songs and many poems. This also reflects his love for Stana.
Milan Milićević listed Stana in 1888 in his “Monument to Serbian Personalities” (Поменик знаменитих људи у српског народа новијега доба).
Stevan Hristić wrote the music for the song Cucuk Stana in 1907.
Her roles in the television film Cucuk Stana and in the television series Vuk Karadžić and Tragom Karadjordja were impersonated in 1972, 1986/87 and 2004 by Svetlana Bojković (Светлана Бојковић), Olivera Ježina (Оливешра Јежина) and Dusica Ivanovic (Дежина).
Web links
- novosti.rs : Tajanstvena heroina opet pruža utočište . (Bosnian, April 19, 2017)
literature
- Dušica Popović Stojković: Čučuk Stana, 1795–1849. Žena Hajduk Veljka i grčkog narodnog heroja Georgakisa Olimpiosa . Negotin 1981.
- Enciklopedija Jugoslavije . Volume 6 (1st edition) 1965. pp. 485f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Internet Movie Database : Cucuk Stana . (English)
- ↑ Internet Movie Database: Tragom Karadjordja . (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stana, Čučuk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Serbian freedom fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1795 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sikole , today Serbia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1849 |
| Place of death | Athens |