Nićifor Dučić was born in the village of Velji Lug, near Višegrad in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1832.
Returning with Serb General Milojko Lešjanin, Nićifor Dučić, now Nicholas I of Montenegro's envoy, exchanged copies of a treaty with Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia and Prime Minister Ilija Garašanin signed October 14, 1867.