Naum Krnar

Naum Krnar (Serbian Cyrillic language: Наум Крнар ) was one of the closest associates of Karađorđe, the leader of the First Serbian Uprising. Krnar was born in Moscopole into a Greek-Aromanian family, identifying as a Greek. He spoke several languages and worked as a merchant in Belgrade. With the outbreak of the uprising, Krnar, who had enriched himself through the trade of leather and fur, immediately joined Karađorđe in the organization, and became his personal secretary and chairman in the Praviteljstvujušči sovjet serbski. He fled Serbia with Karađorđe after the suppression by the Ottomans in 1813. As many of the Serbian commanders, he found refuge in the Russian Empire. He was a founding member of the Filiki Eteria (1814). In 1817, he and Karađorđe secretly crossed the Danube into Serbia, in order to continue the Serbian Revolution, however, the leader of the Second Serbian Uprising, Miloš Obrenović (who had stopped the rebellion in exchange for Ottoman autonomy), learnt of this and had them both beheaded, their heads sent to the Sultan in Constantinople.

Descendants

His descendants are known as Naumović.

After a failed attempt to kill King Alexander Obrenović, the conspiracy group decided to stage the killing in the palace, recruiting officers of the Royal Guard, and lieutenant colonel Mihailo Naumović, a grandson of Naum, who had sympathy toward the Karađorđević due to the murder of his grandfather by Miloš Obrenović. The royal couple were assassinated in the May Coup (1903).

References

• Сима Милутиновић Сарајлија (1990). Трагедиjа српскога господара и вожда Карађорђа. БИГЗ. http://books.google.com/books?id=TYItAAAAMAAJ. 
• Konstantin N. Nenadović; Karađorđe; Karađorđe Petrović (1971). Život i dela velikog Đorđa Petrovića Kara-Đorđa Vrhovnog Vožda, oslobodioca i Vladara Srbije i život njegovi Vojvoda i junaka: Kao gradivo za Srbsku Istoriju od godine 1804 do 1813 i na dalje. "Sloboda," 1971.. http://books.google.com/books?id=8V9pAAAAMAAJ.