Stanojlo Petrović was a Serbian officer, court secretary, advisor, and adjutant to both Prince Miloš Obrenović and his son Mihailo Obrenović III. Petrović and his wife Draginja were among the first public philanthropists in Serbia, and may be regarded as the founders of St. Nicholas Church in the New Cemetery in Belgrade.
Petrović circa 1860
In Bucharest on 3 January 1859, Petrović presented the former and future Knez Miloš with the letter of the National Assembly
The New Cemetery is a cemetery complex in Belgrade, Serbia, with a distinct history. It is located in Ruzveltova street in Zvezdara municipality. The cemetery was built in 1886 as the third Christian cemetery in Belgrade and as the first architecturally and urbanistically planned cemetery in Serbia.
The main entrance to the cemetery
The Church of St. Nicholas at the cemetery
Monument at the Military graveyard of the Serbian-Ottoman Wars (1876–1878)
Memorial Ossuary to the Defenders of Belgrade 1914–1918 with the Alley of the People's Heroes around it.