On the square in front of the church of St. Nicholas in our days there are three monuments to famous people, natives of Perast. This Marko Martinovic, the famous explorer 17-18th cent., Russian mentor midshipmen, Matija Zmaevich, the famous captain and later admiral of the Russian fleet under Peter I, and Tripo Kokolja, a painter of Venetian school, who painted a church on the island of Gospa od Shkrpela.