Sava Vladislavich-Raguzinsky

A highly influential merchant-adventurer and diplomat. Born in the village of Jasenik near Gacko (Hercegovina), me moved with his family to Dubrovnik (Ragusa). He was sent abroad to the Republic of Venice to study Italian, Latin, philosophy, law, commerce and maritime science, then, to Spain and France where he took advanced courses in international law and commerce which became a great aid to his father's merchant business in Ragusa. He became an employ of Peter the Great of Russia and conducted important diplomatic negotiations in Constantinople, Rome and Beijing. He was an author numerous pamphlets, monographs, treaties and letters concerned with liberation of the lands of the Slavs.