Rajko Depreradović

Rajko Depreradović (Buda, Hungary, Habsburg Monarchy, c. 1710 - Novorossiya, Imperial Russia, after 1764) was a leader of colonists who settled free lands in what is now known as Donbass that were offered for settlement in 1752 to Serbs, Vlachs and other Balkan people of the Christian Orthodox faith to ensure frontier protection and development of the steppes. The settlement was then called Slavo-Serbia. Slavo-Serbia was directly governed by Russia's Governing Senate and College of War. The settlers eventually formed the Bakhmut hussar regiment in 1764.[1] Also in 1764, Slavo-Serbia was transformed into the Donets uyezd of Yekaterinoslav Governorate (now in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine). Commandants of Slavo-Serbia were Colonels Rajko Preradović and Jovan Šević. These Serbian colonels led their soldiers in various Russian military campaigns; in peacetime, they kept the borderlands, along with the Cossacks, free from incursions by other states.

Biography

Rajko Preradović's ancestors first settled in an area around Grubišno Polje, some 30 kilometers south-east of Bjelovar in Habsburg Military Frontier. Son of Grenz infantry officer Stepan Depreradović, Rajko followed his family's military tradition and joined the Military Frontier as a young man. His family were given Habsburg nobility in the seventeenth century for their military service to the crown and began using the Nobiliary particle. He became a Pomorišje border lieutenant colonel before heading one of two convoys of colonists in Imperial Russia in 1752. The other convoy was headed by Jovan Šević.

Rajko (Rodion) Stepanovich Depreradović arrived with his family and began to build and develop the homesteads in their new homeland. Three of his sons and their children and relatives, all achieved prominence in the Russian military.[2]

Family History

The Preradovići hail from Old Serbia, from where they settled the Kingdom of Hungary.[3] Jovan Preradović from Bačka received Hungarian noble status in 1626.[3] The nobility status was confirmed in 1667 for Jovan's son, Ivan.[4] A Preradović family moved from Počitelj, Čapljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina to Donja Krajina (modern Bjelovar-Križevci County) in 1750.[4] Lieutenant Colonel Rajko Preradović from Bačka brought the first group of Serbs from Potisje to Russia in 1751.[3] The Preradović family was one of several families that had settled Slavo-Serbia.[5] The Preradović family in Hungary were kin to the Preradović family in the Military Frontier.[6] The Preradović family in the Tisa Military Frontier[7] received nobility status in 1704.[8] General and poet Petar Preradović belonged to this family.[8]

See also

References
  1. States, Ukrainian Academy of Arts Sciences in the United (1955). "Annals".
  2. Bačko, Alexander. "Russian nobility Serbian origin during the reign of the Romanov dynasty" (PDF). freepages.rootsweb.com. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  3. Vladan Đorđević (1883). Otadžbina. p. 158. Иначе, колико је нама иознато, Прерадовићи су етарином из Старе Србије и дошли су у Мађарску. Јован Прера- довић из Леђена (Риђице) у Бачкој добио је 5 (15) марта 1626. маћарско племство. Од ових племића ПрерадовиКа ...
  4. Istorijski zapisi. 74. 2001. p. 68.
  5. Ljubivoje Cerović; Ljubomir Stepanov (2000). Srbi u Rumuniji. Savez Srba u Rumuniji. У њему Арсенијевић помиње потомке знаменитих Срба који су живели на бившем подручју Нове Сербије и Славјаносербије. Тако се пбмињу Хорвати, Шевићи, Прерадовићи, Стратимировићи, Кнежевићи, Вујићи, Петковићи, ...
  6. Brankovo kolo za zabavu, pouku i književnost. 1902. Крајишки Прерадовићи не имађаху, дакле, дипломе о свом племству а ова им не бејаше ни нужна. При свем том знадоше Прерадовићи у Крајини за сродство у Угарској а ови за оно у Хрватској. Но течајем времена изгубише и ...
  7. Rad Matice srpske. 28-31. Matica srpska. 1991. p. 31. У Рукописном одељењу Матице српске проучаване су племићке дипломе официра из Потиске војне границе и Шајкашког батаљона (Лазаревићи, Продановићи, Прерадовићи).
  8. Andra Gavrilović (1903). Znameniti Srbi xix veka. Naklada Srpske štamparije. У новој постојбини већи део мушких чланова куће Прерадовића ступи у војну службу, у којој су имали успеха и напредовања. Године 1704. Прерадовићи добише племство угарско, а пуковник Петар Прерадовић после неког ...


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