Vasilije Simić

After the fall of the Obrenović dynasty in 1903, he was retired early from the position of judge of the Appellate Court in Belgrade and started his career as an attorney at law.

[2] In 1878, Vasa enrolled in the First Belgrade Grammar School, located in the left-wing of the Captain Miša's Mansion.

[4] In 1898 he married Draga, daughter of Krsta M. Tomanović, hardware wholesaler and owner of the most expensive plot of land ever sold in the history of Belgrade (1936), where the "Kafana Albanija" once stood, and where today stands the homonymous Trading Fund Building (Serbian: Palata Trgovačkog fonda).

[6] Despite great respect for the Obrenović dynasty in general, and especially as a personal friend of King Milan, Simić pronounced Nikola Pasić not guilty.

These qualifications made by Simić were not based on his subjective feelings towards the political situation at the time, "and even less towards Serbian radicalism" but on facts systematized in proper hierarchal order and concisely set forth in the indictment document.

[9] As a judge, although unrelenting, V. Simić was still lenient and reasonable; according to his contemporaries and colleagues (Živojin Perić and Slobodan Jovanović), he had compassion for the accused, regardless of their social standing or political orientation.

[10][8] From December 1903 onwards, for the rest of his lifetime, Simić worked as an attorney in his law firm at Obilićev venac, and towards the end of his life he joined into a legal partnership with his nephew Svetolik Grebenac at the same address.

The Supreme Command decided on a retreat across Albania and Montenegro to the Adriatic coast to meet up with the Allied forces.

After the Albanian Golgotha Vasilije M. Simić ended up on the island of Corfu, which housed the Serbian army, refugees, the national parliament, government and other institutions.

How much Simić endured in the hardships of war can be summarised from his death on 4 September 1931, in the family home at 22 Obilićev venac street.