Residence of Princess Ljubica Attraction

Belgrade Attractions - The residence of Princess Ljubica from the list Belgrade Attractions is located at Kneza Sime Markovica street, near the city center. Besides the building from the list Belgrade Attractions, next to the building of the Patriarchate there was another, an old palace, that had residential purposes, however, Prince Miloš decided to build a new palace right next to the old, which will be higher, more beautiful and more representative than the Gospodarska palace.

The construction of the residence of Princess Ljubica was started in 1829 and was completed in 1830 and today is one of the few examples of civic architecture of the period.
The designer of the residence of Princess Ljubica was Hadzi Nikola Zivkovic, and the purpose of this facility was to be dual, according to the wishes of Prince Milos. The building of the residence of Princess Ljubica was designed as the residence of Princess Ljubica and his sons Michael and Milan, and at the same time be a representing house.
In 1830. Milan, Mihailo and Ljubica moved in.

There are numerous stories about Princess Ljubica and about her time at the residence, but the most beautiful and saddest one is the one of her courage and pain. According to the story, Prince Milos had love out of wedlock, and one of them was Petrija.
Having put her in male attire, Milos Petr saved Petrija from the Turks during the Hadzi-Prodan rebellion. He brought her to serve at the palace, and she soon felt the power of protection and began to rule. Milos had a daughter with Petrija, but her power would be three times larger if she had given birth to a son.
Princess Ljubica could not control her pain and jealousy and killed Petrija. Knez Milos was furious but spared the life of Princess Ljubica only because she was having his child, and instead of death, as planned, he punished her by exclusion from married life.
The Prince and Princess were seeing each other only for church and family holidays, and because of the pain that the isolation caused her, one day, during the gathering at the monastery Kalenic, she intercepted Prince Milos with two loaded guns and asked for forgiveness or death.

All of their former places where the princess lived were without opulence, however, in the Residence of Princess Ljubica she had her own chambers, whose floors were covered with lush carpets, and beside the walls were placed minderluks with lots of pillows. In two corners there were two somewhat higher minderluks where Princess Ljubica sat, while the guests were accommodated on the lower ones.
Although the stories of Princess Ljubica were ones of a modest woman, she wanted the life in the residence to be extravagant and decorated lavishly, one letter points to this, she asked Milos if the servants could be given red socks to wear, however, already in the next letter she told the prince that she can serve and clean by herself, indicating that she got a negative response on the first letter.

During the reign of Prince Milos, the Residence of Princess Ljubica was home to the main cashier and the prince’s regency. Prince Michael, their son lived until 1842 in the Residence. After he left the residence of Princess Ljubica it became a home to the Lyceum, the First Belgrade Gymnasium and then the Appellate Court.