Evgeny Karlovich Miller, born on September 25, 1867, in Dvinsk, Vitebsk province, and died on May 11, 1939, in Moscow, was a Russian military leader who attained the rank of lieutenant general in 1915. In 1919 and 1920, he led the White movement in northern Russia and commanded all land and naval forces opposing the Soviet government on the Northern Front.

In his article "Why We Are Uncompromising," Miller explained the reasons for his categorical rejection of Bolshevik power. He wrote that Orthodox faith, homeland, and family were the foundations upon which the Russian people built their lives and state, and it was against these that the communists waged a relentless war. In his soul, he said, lived three feelings: boundless hatred for the Bolsheviks, hope for participation in their overthrow, and faith in the revival of Russia. On September 22, 1937, Miller was kidnapped by NKVD agents from Paris and taken to Moscow aboard the steamer "Maria Ulyanova," after which he was imprisoned in the Lubyanka. On March 30, 1938, he appealed to the People's Commissar for Internal Affairs N. I. Yezhov, requesting permission to visit an Orthodox church incognito, but received no response. On April 16, Miller wrote to Yezhov again, asking to be given the Gospel and "The History of the Church" (or "Lives of the Saints"), as well as permission to use paper and a pen, but there was no reaction to these requests either.

The Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced him to the highest measure of punishment, and on May 11, 1939, Miller was shot in the internal prison of the NKVD. At the time of his death, he was 72 years old.