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Title: Evgenii Miller papers
Date (inclusive): 1916-1924
Collection Number: 28007
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
20 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder, 1 album box, 17 envelopes
(12.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, orders, printed matter, and photographs, relating to White Russian military and diplomatic activities
during the Russian Civil War, Bolshevik atrocities, and White Russian refugees
Creator:
Miller, Evgeniĭ Karlovich, 1867-1939
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1928.
[Identification of item], Evgenii Miller Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Also available on microfilm (23 reels).
| 1867 | Born, Dvinsk, Russia |
| 1886 | Graduated, Nikolaevskoe Kavaleriiskoe Uchilishche, St. Petersburg. Assigned to Leib-gvardii Gusarskii Polk, TSarskoe Selo |
| 1898-1907 | Russian Military Agent in Belgium, Holland and Italy |
| 1910-1912 | Director of Nikolaevskoe Kavaleriiskoe Uchilishche |
| 1912-1914 | Chief-of-Staff of the Moscow Military Region |
| 1914-1917 | Chief-of-Staff of the Russian Fifth Army and Commander of the Twenty-Sixth Army Corps Promoted to Lieutenant-General Arrested and wounded by rebel soldiers during Revolution |
| 1918 | Placed in charge of demobilizing Russian troops on the Western Front by Russian Ambassador to France Vasilii Maklakov |
| 1919-1920 | Appointed Governor-General of Arkhangel'sk Region by Nikolai CHaikovskii and Commander-in-Chief of anti-Bolshevik Northern Armies by Admiral V. Kolchak |
| 1920-1922 | Military and Naval Representative of Gen. Petr Vrangel' in Paris |
| 1924-1937 | Commander of the First Section of the Russkii Obshche-Voinskii Soiuz (R.O.V.S). After the kidnapping of Lieut.-Gen. Aleksandr Kutepov by the O.G.P.U, assumed chairmanship of whole organization |
| 1937 | Kidnapped by Soviet agents on the streets of Paris. Taken to Moscow, condemned to death and shot on orders of the N.K.V.D. |
This collection contains correspondence, reports, orders, printed matter, and photographs, relating to White Russian military
and diplomatic activities during the Russian Civil War, Bolshevik atrocities, and White Russian refugees. Includes a report
to French ambassador and foreign press regarding the situation in Russia. Includes correspondence with Russian Military Agents
in other countries and Russian Army General Headquarters; intelligence and other reports about the Soviet Union and European
countries in which refugees resided; material related to Russian refugees, especially military, including problems of their
legal status abroad, employment, transportation, material support, medical aid and education. Also includes photographs depicting
Bolshevik atrocities committed during the Civil War and photographs of Russian Army officers abroad.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Soviet Union -- History -- Allied intervention, 1918-1920
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Officers
Refugees
Russians -- France
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Refugees
Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920). Armii͡a
Vrangelʹ, Petr Nikolaevich, Baron, 1878-1928