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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Orest Miller (1833–1889)

Miller, Orest Fedorovich (mil’er). A Russian political, archæological, and critical writer; born in Reval, 1833; died in 1889. One of the leading Slavophils, he wrote: ‘The Slav Question in Life and Knowledge’ (1865); ‘Lomonosov and the Reforms of Peter the Great’ (1866); ‘Ilja Murovetz and the Heroes of Kiev’ (1869), a study of Russian popular myths; ‘The Slav World and Europe’ (1877), his most successful work; ‘Lectures on Russian Literature after Gogol’ (3d ed. 1887); etc.