Evgenii Miller papers, 1916-1924

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Summary

Creators:
Miller, EvgeniÄ­ Karlovich, 1867-1939
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
Extent:
20 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder, 17 envelopes (12.8 Linear Feet)
Language:
Russian
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Evgenii Miller Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Biographical / historical:
Date Event
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.
Acquisition information:
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 1928.
Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Box 2 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of 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.

Terms of access:

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Evgenii Miller Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US