Yevgeny Miller

Yevgeny Miller
Miller before 1920
Birth nameYevgeny-Ludvig Karlovich Miller
Born7 October [O.S. 25 September] 1867
Dünaburg, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died11 May 1939(1939-05-11) (aged 71)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Cause of deathExecution by shooting
Allegiance Russian Empire (1884–1917)
 Russian Republic (1917)
Russian Republic Russian State (1917–1920)
Service / branchImperial Russian Army
White Army
Years of service1884–1920
Rank Lieutenant-General
Battles / warsWorld War I
Russian Civil War

Yevgeny-Ludvig Karlovich Miller (Russian: Евге́ний-Лю́двиг Ка́рлович Ми́ллер;[1] 7 October [O.S. 25 September] 1867 – 11 May 1939) was a Russian general of Baltic German descent and one of the leaders of the anti-communist White Army during the Russian Civil War. After the civil war, he lived in exile in France. Kidnapped by Soviet intelligence operatives in Paris in 1937, he was smuggled to the Soviet Union and executed in Moscow in 1939.

  1. ^ A. Tarulis, American-Baltic relations, 1918-1922: the struggle over recognition, Catholic University of America Press, 1965, p. 190