President Stevandic attended in Belgrade the opening of the Exhibition: “Protect Yugoslavia”
The President of the National Assembly Dr Nenad Stevandic attended tonight in the Museum of Yugoslavia in Belgrade the opening of the exhibition: “Protect Yugoslavia”, marking the 90th anniversary of the assassination of King Alexander I Karadjordjevic in Marseille.
The opening of the exhibition was also attended by the Prime Minister of Serbia, Milos Vucevic, the ministers in the Serbian government, the Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Srpska, Zeljka Stocic, the representative of the President of the Republic of Srpska and the Chief of the Republic of Srpska representative Office in Serbia, Mladjen Cicovic, and Prince Alexander Karadjordjevic.
After the exhibition oppenong president Stevandic said that the Karadjordjevic heritage represents Serbian National Heritage.
He said after the exhibition’s opening that the Karadjordjevic’s heritage represents Serbian national heritage.
He told to the media in Belgrade that Serbia and the Republic of Srpska equally cherish Serbian cultural territory, churches and tradition.
“We have an obligation towards the future, the predecessors, the same as Serbia, to keep in mind that the historical details related to our origin and the freedom of all peoples, which has been brought by Serbian people , are related to the Karadjordjevic dynasty and for the heroic behaviour of King Aleander who spend in the uniform 7 years”, said Stevandic.
Stevandic stressed that by sharing this heritage we teach our children to protect their future.
The exhibition organized by the Ministry of Culture and the Museum of Yugoslavia, under the sponsorship of the president of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic, and it deals with the assassination of King Alexander I, on 9 October, 1934th.
The museum exhibit was initiated by the Minister of culture Nikola Selakovic, and the Museum borrowed 57 items and 315 photographys, films, and documents, establishing cooperation with 39 institutions and 15 private collectors from Serbia, but also from Montenegro, Croatia, and Slovenia.
From the Military Museum, there was a military uniform in which the King was killed, and from the National Museum there was a model created from the stone, for the monument in Paris, created by the sculptor, Maxim Réal del Sarte
A portrait of Paja Jovanović was handed over from the Royal Palace on Dedinje, and from the Patriarchate of the Serbian Orthodox Church, a sculpture based on the king's original death mask, which was later used for most monuments, was presented to the public for the first time.
The authors of the exhibition are curators Veselinka Kastratovic Ristic, Biljana Crvenkovic, Aleksandra Momcilovic Jovanovic, and Radovan Cukic, who agree that the "last words" of King Aleksandr I "Protect Yugoslavia" are part of a myth.
