Proslava stogodišnjice dana oslobođenja Beograda u Prvom srpskom ustanku 1906. godine

The paper deals with the role and significance of commemorating memorial days as a public event within the culture of remembrance of a nation, using the example of the celebration of the centenary of the liberation of Belgrade on 30 November 1906. The liberation of Belgrade during the First Serbian Uprising was a highly significant event in the beginnings of the creation of the modern Serbian state. The fact that it also fell on a church holiday, St. Andrew's Day, afforded it a particularly special place in the culture of remembrance of the Principality, and subsequently the Kingdom of Serbia. The fact that the Kingdom of Serbia began the year in which it was supposed to celebrate the centenary of the liberation of its capital with the outbreak of the so-called Pig War largely determined the nature of the commemorations, with the circumstances predicating that the centennial not be afforded the status of an official state celebration. Reduced to the form of a more modest ephemeral spectacle with an absence of architectural, artistic and visual cultural works, the greatest contribution to the promotion of the anniversary was made by the printed media.