Nikolai Stepanov is a guide in Montenegro, he has been living in the country for over 10 years. He conducts his own tours of Montenegro with a historical-analytical focus, striving to make his excursions engaging and not tedious. He is published and quoted in Serbian and Montenegrin press, gaining friends among the local academic elite. His work appears in Serbia's oldest and most influential newspaper, "Politika", the Russian portal about Montenegro "OpenMonte", and the newspapers "Vesti"and "Sloboda Reč". In his research, he exclusively uses local archival and scholarly sources.