Rista Ognjanović

On Novaković's recommendation, he studied at the Galatasaray Lyceum in Constantinople French and Turkish as a private student from 1890 to 1892.

In the following year, 1893, Ognjanović was appointed as a French teacher at the Constantinople Serbian High School, where he worked until 1895.

He died on April 6, 1941, in Skopje during a German bombardment of the city at the beginning of Operation Aufmarsch 25.

Among his other works includes an unpublished manuscript Stories and Life (Истории и живот) that illustrated violence committed in the Debar region.

[4] In his book Galičnik and the Mijaks (Галичник и мијаците) written at the end of his life, but published for the first time in 2004 in Skopje,[5][6] he details genealogies of families from this region and migration patterns, including new settlement of Albanians.