Writer Petar Kočić attended the elementary school organised at the monastery.
Petar Kočić (1877–1916), Serb poet, writer and politician from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Petar Omčikus | Petar II Petrović-Njegoš | Petar Gudev | Petar Kočić | Petar Dobrović | Petar Dachev | Petar Dobrovic | Petar Beron | Sveti Petar u Šumi | Sveti Petar Orehovec | Sveti Petar Čvrstec | Sveti Petar | Saša Kocić | Petar Zrinski | Petar Stojkoviḱ | Petar Radev | Petar Mrkonjić | Petar I Petrović-Njegoš | Petar Drapšin | Petar Brzica | Petar Beron (politician) | Miloš Kocić |
His contemporaries were Veljko M. Milićević, Ivo Ćipiko, Borisav Stanković, Janko Veselinović, Petar Kočić, Simo Matavulj, Radoje Domanović, Milorad J. Mitrović (poet), Stevan Sremac, Laza Kostić and others.
These Serbian prose writers showed many traits in common with the Russians, particularly with Dostoyevsky (Borisav Stanković), and to a certain extent also with Maxim Gorky (Ivo Čipiko and Petar Kočić).