page_title: Milica Miljanov
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Milica Miljanov / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Vojvoda Marko Miljanov. Postcard published by Издање С. Б. Цвијановића in ca. 1910. Photograph taken before 1901. COBISS.SR-ID: 128309255.
context_page_description: Milica Miljanov was a Montenegrin soldier and war heroine in World War I.
context_section_description: Milica Miljanov was born in Medun, around 1860. She was one of three daughters of the Montenegrin duke, Marko Miljanov. She married Ivan Lazović. Miljanov volunteered to the army in 1914 as a mother and at an age when even men are relieved from active duty, fighting all across the Balkan warfront. Unlike other women who joined the army, she did not change her identity and name, and was able to fight as a woman till the end of the war. Her daughter, Olga, born in 1898, was a writer, dancer, composer, philosopher and teacher, who was remembered as Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, the wife and associate of the American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.
caption: Duke Marko Miljanov
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