Vsevolod Fyodorovich Miller (April 7 (N.S. April 19), 1848, Moscow

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 – November 5 (N.S. November 18), 1913, Saint Petersburg

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) was a Russia

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n philologist, folklorist, linguist, anthropologist, archaeologist, and academician

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 of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1911).

Vsevolod Miller graduated from the Moscow State University

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 in 1870. In 1884, he became a professor at his alma mater

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. In 1881, Vsevolod Miller was elected chairman of the ethnographic department of the Moscow Naturalists Society. He was one of the founders of the Ethnographic Review magazine (1889–1916), keeper of the Dashkova Ethnographic Museum in Moscow (1884–1897), and director of the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages

Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages

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 (1897–1911). Vsevolod Miller was involved in the study of Indo-Iranian languages

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 (especially Ossetian language), Russian language

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 and folklore.