Evgeny Karlovich Miller
Lt. Gen. Evgeniy-Lyudvig Karlovich Miller. The White General with the English name. Of Baltic extraction, Miller was born in 1867 in what is now Latvia. After service with the Imperial Guard, the multiligual and social graceful officer spent a decade as a military attaché in assorted European capitals. By the Great War, he proved a decent field commander, rising to lead the 26th Infantry Corps in the field. Managing to remove himself from Petrograd during the Revolution, he was in Archangel at just the right time and, mixing with the Allied Interventionists, stood up the White government in Northern Russia until it collapsed after the Allied withdrawl in early 1920. In exile, Miller served as first chief of staff to Baron Wrangel and was assistant to the chief of the ROVS. He later moved up as in the organization as Wrangel and others passed. Following the kidnapping and killing of Kutepov, Miller was the defacto head of ROVS in Western Europe in the late 1930s. Smelling a rat when going to a Sept. 1937 meeting with Maj. Gen. Nikolai Skoblin, who was in fact in the pay of Soviet intellegence, Miller left a note pointing to Skoblin’s way should he disappear. Kidnapped and sprited out of France in a trunk, he spent the next two years undergoing torture at Lubyanka. Then, in May 1939, Evgeny Karlovich Miller was burned alive by Blokhin – Stalin’s favorite executioner– in the ovens of the crematorium located right in the head the building of the church of Seraphim of Sarov.