Summary/Abstract: The personality of Jovan Ćirković, a well-known Serbian national worker in the Ottoman Empire and later functionary of the Radical Party, stirred numerous controversies among contemporaries. It is therefore no wonder that Stevan Simić, who conflicted with Ćirković back in 1906 in Bitola over the methods to organise the Serbian revolutionary action in Turkey, wrote Ćirković’s biography from an exclusively critical aspect. As a result of his clashes with Ćirković and his associates from the Serbian consulate, in February 1907 Simić was transferred to the Serbian grammar school in Pljevlja. Despite the bitter tone, the text about Jovan Ćirković is an interesting and important historical source as it presents the machinations of the authorities in the new areas of Serbia as of 1913. Jovan Ćirković was the symptom and symbol of the system established by the Radical Party in Old Serbia and Macedonia, from the moment of their annexation to Serbia. Simić’s memories of Ćirković have already been used in historiography, but have not been published in entirety. They serve as a useful source because there is still no comprehensive monograph about Jovan Ćirković although he was considered one of the most important politicians in Old Serbia and Macedonia.
