Boris Vsevolodovich Miller

Boris Vsevolodovich Miller (, 12 November 1877 – 6 August 1956) was a Soviet Iranianist scholar, professor at Moscow State University, and doctor of sciences in philology.

Biography He was born in 1877 in the family of the folklorist and ethnographer Vsevolod Miller (1848–1913) and Evgenia Viktorovna (née Nasonova, 1857–1927), he is also the nephew of the zoologist Nikolai Nasonov.

In 1895 he graduated with a gold medal from the 6th classical men's gymnasium and in 1899 graduated from the law faculty of Moscow University, and in 1903 from the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages. and researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He gave courses in Persian language and literature and the history of Iran.

From 1943 to 1953 he was the head of the Department of Iranian Philology of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University.

From 1932 to 1956 the life of professor Miller and his family was connected with the town of Medyn, where he came to his dacha for the summer with a break for the years of the war. For the last 4 years of his life, he lived in Medyn all year round, continuing his scientific work until the last days of his life.

He died on 6 August 1956. He was buried in the cemetery of the town of Medyn.

At the beginning of October 2010, in Moscow a Talysh figure scientist Gilal Mammadov had a conversation with Leah Pireyko and she told a lot of interesting things about her teacher Miller. And in 2011, G. Mammadov found and visited the grave of Boris Miller in the town of Medyn. On the same train, G. Mammadov managed to find an image of the professor and have a conversation with his granddaughter Natalya Somik.

Awards

Order of the Red Banner of Labour (06.10.1945)