Anatoly Filippovich Miller (1901-1973), a talented orientalist, diplomat, publicist, and teacher, holds a special place among Russian scientists who have devoted their lives to the study of Turkey. In honor of the centenary of the professor's birth, a collection of articles "From Istanbul to Moscow" was published (Moscow, Muravey, 2003, 368 p). Their authors are students of A. F. Miller, as well as researchers of this country from Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria and Turkish scientists.

A. Miller achieved impressive results in many areas of his multi-faceted work and research, whether it was a long (almost 20 years) service in the NKID of the USSR, or also a long-term scientific and teaching work in leading scientific and educational institutions of the country.

The collection covers a wide range of issues: the institution of waqf in the social structure of the Ak-Koyunlu state (article by Sh. Mustafayev), Historical topography of Ochakov (publication by S. A. Belyaeva on some results of the Ukrainian-Turkish archaeological expedition), Material and spiritual life of the Bulgarian people in the Ottoman Empire in the XVIII century (article by the Bulgarian historian E. A. Radusheva), Ottoman finance during the First World War (the work of E. I. Urazova), Reforms in the agricultural sector of the Turkish economy at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries. (research by N. Y. Ulchenko), a publication by A. O. Tamazishvili about the scientist's participation in the social, political and scientific life of the RSFSR-USSR, in particular about his role in the development of cooperation between cinematographers of the USSR and Turkey in the 30s.

Analyzing Russian and Ottoman sources, M. S. Meyer gives an assessment of Russian-Ottoman relations in the first half of the 16th century, when new forms of contacts appeared in relations between the two states. N. G. Kireev's article is devoted to the formation of a secular society in Turkey in the XX-XXI centuries. The Turkish scholar I. Ortayli reflects on the state of public thought, including historiography, in Turkey in 1927-1945.

As S. F. Oreshkova, one of the compilers of the collection, points out in the preface, " ... a wide range of problems... It will help to understand the common experience and identify in it what can still serve for the benefit of the two peoples."

A. Miller's scientific heritage consists of about 180 books, pamphlets, articles, reviews and other materials. As M. S. Lazarev notes, thanks to the efforts and achievements of scientists-turkologists of the previous generation, and first of all A. Miller, the continuity between generations of scientists, vital for Turkology, as for any other science, was preserved.

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