GENERAL E. K. MILLER (1867-1939) 1) Confirmation of registration of the ‘Society of the Northmen’ issued by the ...

GENERAL E. K. MILLER (1867-1939) 1) Confirmation of registration of the ‘Society of the Northmen’ issued by the Prefecture of Paris in the name of its President General Miller. October 10, 1924. 2) The Charter of the Society of the Northmen’. 8 p.; 21, 5x13, 5 cm.
Miller Yevgeny Karlovich (1867-1939) - Russian military
leader, Lieutenant General; head of the White movement
in Northern Russia in 1919-1920, commander-in-chief of
all land and sea armed forces of Russia (Northern Army),
fighting against the Soviet government at the Northern
front. Was kidnapped in Paris and taken by the agents of
the NKVD to Moscow, convicted and executed.
The Society of the Northmen was founded in Paris by
initiative of General E. K. Miller. The mission of the
Society included: the organization of the relationship
between the ‘northerners’ (immigrants from the Northern
area - an administrative -territorial unit comprising the
Arkhangelsk province and the Murmansk region) and
providing them with various types of assistance. An
Editorial Commission headed By N. V. Tchaikovsky and S. N. Gorodetsky, Chairman of the Arkhangelsk district court, was established
in the Society.The Commission was to collect documents and other materials directly related to the history of the Northern area. The
society had its own silver simbol in the form of St. Andrew’s cross with a double-headed eagle above.