September – October 2013.
Sava Promenade, Kalemegdan park

The Archives of Yugoslavia exhibition “Jovan Dučić in Diplomacy”, authored by Miladin Milošević and Dušan Jončić, opened at Kalemegdan park on 25 September 2013. The exhibition was opened to mark 140 years from the birth and 70 years from the death of Jovan Dučić, poet and diplomat, and also to celebrate 55th anniversary of the Belgrade`s Primary School “Jovan Dučić”.

Jovan Dučić (17 February 1871 – 7 April 1943) was a poet, writer and diplomat.

Jovan Dučić belonged to a modern category of poets – diplomats who were present in particular in French diplomacy between World War One and World War Two. His diplomatic career that lasted for more than 30 years, Jovan Dučić spent in nine countries in 13 missions, ranging from Sophia, Athens, Madrid, Rome, Athens for the second time, Geneva, Cairo, Budapest, Rome again, Bucharest, Madrid for the second time, and Lisabon. He started his career at the bottom of the ladder, he was a clerk at first, then secretary, advisor, standing delegate, moving on to consul general, chargé d`affaires, envoy, arriving at the very top of diplomatic ladder when he became the first Ambassador in diplomatic history of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. During his diplomatic career Jovan Dučić left invaluable testimonies on numerous events and persons representing the then state, political, diplomatic and cultural elite of the countries he served in. He was one of the very few foreigners, besides Rabindranath Tagore, who were accepted by the Literary Club of London…