Jeremija Gagić

In August 1806, he went to Trieste with Avram Lukić in order to seek help from wealthy Serb merchants and shipowners for the insurrection—the war of independence.

In November 1806, he went to the Austrian emperor in Vienna to open the Austria-Serbia border, and on 7 March 1807, as a member of a deputation sent by the Serbian State Council (Parliament) in Belgrade, he went first to Iași and then to Bucharest to see the Russian high command stationed there for the purpose of a joint action against the Turks.

After the expulsion of Stojković in 1811[4] and consequently Gagić, too, left Serbia and moved to the Russian service, first with the Danubian army, and from February 1813 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

[6] Gagić also played an important political role because, through the Dubrovnik Consulate, subordinated to the Russian mission in Vienna, thus direct Russian-Montenegrin relations were maintained.

Apart from his voluminous letter writings, Gagić took interest in the Dubrovnik archives where important state correspondence, private letters, and charters, written in Serbian Cyrillic and Serbian Latin recension by Ban Kulin, King Stefan Uroš, King Tvrtko, Ban Matej Ninoslav, and a member of the Asen dynasty, were kept.