Tsarina Militza

Also known as: Militza · Family: Serbians · Role: Tsarina · First appears: Chapter VI · The Tsarina Militza and the Zmay of Yastrebatz · Part 1

In Chapter VI · The Tsarina Militza and the Zmay of Yastrebatz, the Zmay of Yastrebatz had come to Militza’s tower each night since the previous year. Tsar Lazarus asked her to learn whom the Zmay feared and whom he considered greater than himself; Militza brought what she learned to Lazarus’s tchardack. That night, Zmay-Despot Vook asked her to leave her apartment doors open and await the Zmay, promising protection.

In Chapter IX · Tsar Lazarus and the Tsarina Militza, Lazarus agreed to leave her brother Boshko Yougovitch at home with her, but Boshko rode to war when morning came. Voin Yougovitch also rode on with his brothers, and Militza swooned at the horses’ feet; Golouban carried her into her tower before riding after his comrades toward Kossovo. There she tended a wounded warrior, helping him dismount and giving him water and wine. Her father, Youg Bogdan, perished in the first onset.