Evgeny Miller
| Yevgeny Miller | |
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General Yevgeny Miller
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| Birth name | Yevgeny-Ludvig Karlovich Miller |
| Born |
25 September 1867 Dünaburg, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 11 May 1939 (aged 71) Moscow, Soviet Russia |
| Allegiance |
 Russian Empire
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| Service/branch |
Imperial Russian Army White Army |
| Years of service | 1884–1920 |
| Rank | Lieutenant-General |
| Battles/wars |
World War I Russian Civil War |
Yevgeny-Ludvig Karlovich Miller (Russian: Евгений Карлович Миллер; 25 September 1867 – 11 May 1939) was a Russian general and one of the leaders of the anticommunist White Army during and after the Russian Civil War (1917-1922). After the civil war he lived in exile in France. Kidnapped by the Soviet secret police in Paris in 1937, he was smuggled to Moscow and killed there in 1939.
Miller was a career officer born to a Baltic German noble family in Dünaburg (now Daugavpils, Latvia). After he graduated from the General Staff Academy, he served with the Russian Imperial Guard. Between 1898 and 1907, he was a Russian military attaché in several European capitals, such as Rome, The Hague and Brussels. During the First World War, he headed the Moscow military district and the 5th Russian Army and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general.
After the February Revolution of 1917, Miller opposed "democratization" of the Russian army and was arrested by his own soldiers after he ordered them to remove red armbands.
After the October Revolution of 1917, Miller fled to Archangelsk and declared himself Governor-General of Northern Russia. In May 1919, Admiral Kolchak appointed him to be in charge of the White Army in the region. In Archangelsk, Murmansk and Olonets, his anti-Bolshevik army was supported by the Triple Entente, mostly British forces. However, after an unsuccessful advance against the Red Army along the Northern Dvina in the summer of 1919, British forces withdrew from the region, and Miller's men faced the enemy alone.
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