How Stephen the Small came to save Montenegro and afterwards

From: The Spectator | Date: April 21, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

REALM OF THE BLACK MOUNTAIN by Elizabeth Roberts Hurst Publishing, £25, pp. 520, ISBN 9781850657712 . £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655

In 1766, a diminutive adventurer appeared in Cetinje, the capital of the mountainous principality of Montenegro, and managed to supplant the rightful claimant to the position of Vladika, the ruling Prince-Bishop. The adventurer was remarkable in many respects. Firstly, he was known as 'Scepan Mali', 'Stephen the Small', in a country where physical stature and strength were highly prized. Even more bizarrely, he claimed to be Tsar Peter III of ...

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