Grigoriy Shcherbina

[2][3] The plan was to rout Ottoman authorities in Peć, kill the notable Serbs, then move to Mitrovica and confront the Russian consulate.

[5] Albanian sources state that the soldier was Halit Ibrahim Popofci, from Zhegër near Gjilan, and that he shot Scherbina due to his Anti-albanian policies.

[6] Shcherbina entered the diplomatic service of Imperial Russia when he was only 23 and was one of its most promising civil servants.

[7] A year later, the 35-year-old Consul died of bullet wounds sustained in the assassination attempt by an Albanian soldier.

[8][9][10][11] Each year on 31 March, the anniversary of the death of the Russian consul Gregory Scherbina is commemorated in the north part of Kosovska Mitrovica where his monument situated.