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Tsar Šćepan Mali (eng. Stephen the Little) was historical anomaly in bleak and bloody history of small Montenegro. He was like a comet, bright and fascinating but short-lasting. He was first mention in year 1766, as self styled doctor, and two years later, in 1768, he was proclaimed as Tsar Šćepan Mali. With assassination of Tsar Peter III of Russia, rumors sparked in the eastern Europe that he somehow survived and that he is hiding in small Montenegro. Šćepan took this opportunity to convince the disunited tribes that he, indeed is Tsar and quickly he was made Imperatorof Montenegro and little Montenegro, for was short six years was empire. He was shown as authoritarian ruler but very competent, uniting tribal and ultratraditionalist society and for brief time, transforming it to modern Sparta.
This timeline asks a question, what if Šćepan Mali survived assassination of 1773,and ruled till old age?
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