Monahinja Jefimija

EUPHEMIA*, IN HER MOVING LAUD TO PRINCE LAZAR. DAUGHTER OF THE SERBIAN PRINCE VOlHNA AND WIFE OF THE DESPOT UGLJE§A MRNJAVCEVIC, WHO WAS KILLED IN THE BATTLE OF THE MARITZA, SHE FLED, AN UNHAPPY WIDOW, FROM HER OWN ENSLAVED PROVINCES TO THE COURT OF THE SERBIAN RULER, PRINCE LAZAR, WHERE SHE FOUND A FRIENDLY REFUGE. BUT MISFORTUNE DOGGED HER STEPS. THE TURKS INVADED LAZAR’S KINGDOM TOO, AND ON HIS DEATH AT KOSSOVO, EUPHEMIA, TOGETHER WITH LAZAR’S WIDOW, MILI- RETIRED TO THE MONASTERY OF LJUBOSTINJE, WHERE SHE SPENT THE LAST YEARS OF HER LIFE AS A NUN. BUT WHENEVER QUEEN MILITZA LEFT

• THE MATERIAL FOR THIS ESSAY WAS OBTAINED FROM THE STUDIES BY Dr LAZAR MIRKOVIC, MONAHINJA JEFIMIJA (THE NUN EUPHEMIA), BIBLIOTEKA „Н Rl§tA N S K O Q 1 1VOT A“ („CHRISTIAN LIFE" SERIES), As 5. SREMSKI KARLOVCI, 1932; SRPSKA PLA§TANICA MONAHINJE JEFIMIJE U MANASTIRU PUTNI (BUKOVINA) (T H E SERBIAN EPITAPHIOS OF THE NUN EUPHEMIA IN THE MONASTERY OF PUTNA (BUKOVINA), „STARINAR" (THE ANTIQUARY), THE ORGAN OF THE ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, BEOGRAD, SERIES 111, VOL. II FOR 1923, BEOGRAD 1925; S T A R I N E FRUkOGORSKIH MANASTIRA (ANTIQUITIES OF THE FRU § K A QORA MONASTERIES), HISTORICAL SOCIETY, NOVI SAD, VOL. 111, BEOGRAD. OECA KON, 1931.