Pavle Popović (revolutionary)

Pavle Popović (c. 1750 – 8 December 1816) was a Serbian warrior, diplomat, and politician. He was a representative in the cabinets of Matija Nenadović, Mladen Milovanović, and Jakov Nenadović. He participated in the First and Second Serbian Uprising and was a member of the People's Office in Belgrade.

He was born in Vranić, where he was a village prince (kmet) and he participated in the fighting against the janissaries of the Ottoman Empire administration in the Belgrade pashaluk around 1800. In 1804 he took part in the fighting, and from 1805 was a member of the Governing State Council for the Belgrade Nahiya and a member of the Grand Provincial Court (Supreme Court) from 1811.

Popović and other members of the Governing State Council became recipients of the coveted Order of St. Anna, 2nd degree, from Russian Tsar Aleksandar I in 1811. The decoration also included a title of the Russian hereditary court and free schooling for children in Russian military cadet schools for all the recipients of the honour. Pavle Popović, together with his cousin Lazar Popović, moved a short distance to an Austrian-occupied territory of Srem in 1813, to Železnik, where he stayed until 1815, then he moved back to Belgrade and joined Prince Miloš Obrenović, who in the same year, after signing a truce with the Turks, appointed him one of the two rotating representatives at the Turkish headquarters at Vračar.

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