Vasilije Popović (revolutionary)

Prince Vasa was an actor and creator of spy and diplomatic missions, a transmitter of dispatches and oral messages.

However, his significance and merit for the liberation of Serbia remained a secret; the truth about his fate and role emerged only before the 200th anniversary of the Second Serbian Uprising.

Diplomatic struggles, negotiations and agreements followed, first with the Turkish Marashli Ali Pasha and "Furthermore, all the way to the employees and emissaries of the then superpowers.

The prince needed the most capable and loyal people for all that, and they, in addition to that diplomatic and intelligence activity, represented and exercised judicial and military power on his behalf in the domestic political field".

[5] He died on 17 January 1832 in Belgrade under mysterious circumstances , according to Milan Milićević in Pomenik znameniti ljudi u srpskoga naroda novijega doba.