Архимандрит Хаџи Рувим Нешковић (1752-1804) - прилози за биографију
Archimandrite Hadži Ruvim Nešković (1752-1804) – Supplements for a Biography

Summary/Abstract: Hadži Ruvim Neškovic, prior of Voljavča, and head of the Bogovađa monastery afterwards, is a representative of the most prominent Serbian spiritual dignitaries in the times immediately preceding the uprising. Born in 1752 in Babina Luka near Valjevo, he acquired basis of his priestly education in the surrounding monasteries. He got ordained to the priestly rank in the Ćelije monastery in 1774. He entered a monastic order as a young man, upon the death of his wife Marija in 1784, and made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the same year. He sojourned in the important Orthodox spiritual centers, where he acquired a considerably wider education than it was the case in those days; he had knowledge of both oral and written Greek, but he also mastered other, rare skills, such as artistic engraving. He was the principal figure in reconstruction of the Bogovađa monastery, that got burnt down during the last Habsburg-Turkish war. He compiled a significant library and developed an educational activity there. He was a respectable figure among his contemporaries – being a spiritual dignitary, a writer, and a chronicler. Apart from his local environment and monasteries of Mount Athos, he maintained contacts with priests of the Mitropoly of Karlovci of the Habsburg Monarchy likewise. He was endowed with great courage, and informed of preparations for the uprising against the Dahies in the Belgrade Pashaluk. It was at the Dahies' order that he was executed at the end of January 1804 in Belgrade.

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