Mountain crown

"Mountain crown" ( Serbian. "Gorski vienac", the old Serbian spelling "Gorski vienac" ) is a romantic poem by the ruler of Montenegro, Peter II Petrovich Negosh . First published in Vienna in 1847 in Serbian. The poem was written after The Rays of the Microcosm and before The False King Stepan the Small .

Mountain crown
Gorsky ıenats
Cover of the 1847 edition
Genre	heroic poem
Author	Peter II Petrovich Negosh
Original language	Serbian
Date of writing	1846
Date of first publication	1847
Publishing house	and the

The poem is based on the event that happened at Christmas at the beginning of the XVIII century: the extermination of converted to Islam Serbs. Negosh describes the events of the history of Montenegro from the time of Tsar Stephen Nemanich to the beginning of the 18th century, the everyday life of Montenegrins, holidays and gatherings, folk customs, beliefs and ideas, tells about neighbors: Turks and Venetians. The poem describes three civilizations: the heroic-patriarchal Montenegrin, the East Islamic Ottoman and the West European Venetian .

Contains 2819 stanzas . Size - ten- foot trochaic (one song in nine-foot and cry in twelve-foot).