Stevan Todorović Dobrnjac, the Moravian prince, has a similar life path to his older brother Petar Todorović Dobrnjac. As the leader of the failed rebellion against Prince Miloš in 1821, he left Dobrnjac forever in 1823. There is a fairly extensive archive material about Stevan Todorović Dobrnjac. In addition to the archive material, the authors used numerous historical literature relating to the Second Serbian Uprising and the reign of Miloš Obrenović, as well as oral tradition, which is much more preserved in Dobrnjac than about his brother, Duke Petar Todorović.
It would be unfair to the Todorović family if this work did not mention Petar's third brother Nikola. There are few written records of Nikola Todorović Dobrnjac, as he is not mentioned anywhere as a rebel or any kind of centurion, but only as a merchant. Since he lived in the shadow of his two famous brothers, Duke Petar and Prince Stevan, there is no oral tradition about him in Dobrnjac, although he is the only one of the Todorović brothers who has living descendants today.
The graves of Duke Petar Todorović and his brothers, the Moravian Prince Stevan Todorović and the merchant Nikola Todorović, are located far from Dobrnjac, scattered throughout Bessarabia and Wallachia.
The people of Dobrnjac have raised an ethical question for the umpteenth time.
Why have they been silent about their famous ancestors and their village for two centuries? No one from Dobrnjac remembered to write anything about their famous ancestors and the village in which they were born, even if it was for internal use, thus saving them from oblivion. The responsibility for this moral lapse lies primarily with the Dobrnjac intellectuals, who simply had no desire to do such a thing. They expected that someone else would do it for them, considering that dukes and princes were not just local figures. No one from the outside remembered to do such a thing, so Petar Dobrnjac is one of the rare dukes who does not have a monograph...
Source:
Voivoda Petar Todorović Dobrnjac and his brothers; Miroslav Borivojević, Miroslava Borivojević; Smederevo, 2004.
