Throughout history, bread has been treated with great respect, and this respect extended to millers. Their services, of course, were not free, and with constant demand, their labor brought good income. Poor millers, as a rule, did not exist. The first person in Russia to be called the "King of the Mill" or "King of Millers" was Anton Maximovich Erlanger (1839-1910). Despite his German surname, he was a native Muscovite. This citizen of the Russian Empire built the first automatic mill in Moscow in 1881 at Sokolnicheskoye Field, equipped with modern roller mills capable of processing up to 170 tons of grain per day. Over fifty years of hard work, Erlanger erected about a thousand powerful mills across Russia, transforming from a modest man into one of the largest industrialists of his time. He often said, "The miller does not haggle over the stone he needs," and indeed, he did not spare expenses on useful foreign innovations, understanding that in each locality, grain has its own characteristics, and mills must be adapted to local conditions. Therefore, Erlanger personally selected specialists in milling, preferring hereditary millers and paying special attention to their natural talent and professional secrets passed down from generation to generation.