Gerard Friedrich Miller
Gerard Friedrich Miller (1705-83), historian and scholar of early texts, member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, one of the first historians of Siberia. Between 1733 and 1743 he took part in expeditions to study Siberia, researched the archives of over twenty towns including Tobolsk, Yakutsk, Irkutsk and Nerchinsk, and collected highly valuable material on Russian history. His main work, A History of Siberia (up to the 1660s) was published in Russian in 1750.
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