Letter of Andrija Vuković to the Prefect of the Belgrade Municipality

Prince Miloš Obrenović, after coming to power and after starting the works on the construction of public buildings, was very quickly encountered with the lack of educated architects and engineers in Serbia. That is why in the first decades after the Second Serbian Uprising, they generally came to Serbia from other countries, primarily Slavic. Among them were Czechs, Slovaks, as well as Serbs who were born and educated abroad. That was also the case with graduate engineer Andrija Vuković. In 1854, he sent a letter from Buda to the Prefect of Belgrade, Magazinović, in which he inquired about the status of his appointment as an engineer in Belgrade. We know that the answer to the letter was positive based on the fact that Vuković came to Belgrade and worked as a town engineer from 1862 to 1865, after which he was transferred to the Ministry of Construction. According to his projects were built, once very famous, buildings of the Belgrade hotels "Balkan" and "London". Nowadays they are demolished