The Photo Collection of Edith Durham

Albania, Montenegro and Kosovo, 1903 - 1913

ED026_RAI 400.13304 Montenegro. Durmitor. The old Montenegrin warrior Mitar Ćorović, aged 80, who had been a battalion commander in the Herzegovina war of 1875-1878; this photo was taken in Durmitor in the mountains of northern Montenegro (Photo: Edith Durham, March 1905). “At Zhabljak, Durmitor, I spent two amusing days seeing the distribution of arms. Men flocked in from all parts, were delighted with their new toys, and Russia leapt up in every one’s estimation. No ammunition was served out for, as an officer remarked, ‘It would all be wasted.’ They conversed on blood and battle and clicked their new revolvers. ‘How we should like to go over and try them on the Turks,’ they said. ‘But we dare not cross the border because of the Powers.’” (Edith Durham, Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle, 1920).