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  Nicholas Roerich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nicholas Roerich, (October 9, 1874 - December 13, 1947) also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh (Russian: Николай Константинович Рёрих), was a Russian painter and spiritual teacher.
Roerich's stage-designs for the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, given in Paris in 1913, and based on ancient Russian motifs, were highly innovative and influential.
In 1929 Nicholas Roerich was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the University of Paris.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nikolai_Roerich   (427 words)

  
 Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerih, canvases of Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerih, biography of Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerih - ...
The name of the Russian painter Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich (1874-1947) occupies an honorable place in the history of our own coutry's and the world culture of the XX century.
Nikolai Konstantinovich was formed as an artist and a public cultural worker of the Russia of the end of the XIX - beginning of the XX centuries.
The so-called the "Roerich Pact", providing for the protection of culture memorials of all humanity played an important role in strengthening friendship and cooperation between the nations.
www.museum-online.ru /en/Symbolism/Nikolai_Konstantinovich_Rerih   (891 words)

  
 ISFP Gallery of Russian Thinkers: Nikolay Roerich (Rerikh)
Roerich maintained a lifelong interest in the teaching of art, as well as the preservation of artistic and architectural heritage, as demonstrated in essays such as 'The Golgotha of Art' (1908) and 'Quiet Pogroms' (1911).
Roerich never belonged formally to either group, but he was acquainted with many who did — such as poets Aleksandr Blok and Nikolai Gumilev, as well as the art historian Nikolai Kondakov — and he agreed with them that Russia was best understood in a fully Eurasian context.
Roerich's thinking became noted for a distinct unity of vision: in essays such as 'Art and Archaeology' (1898), he argued that scientific thought, artistic creativity, and spiritual advancement were equally important and mutually interdependent.
www.isfp.co.uk /russian_thinkers/nikolay_roerich.html   (1057 words)

  
 N. Roerikh's Estate Museum
The family portrait picturing Konstantin Roerich, his wife Maria (Korkunova-Kalashnikova b.) and their children Lidia (born in 1869), Nikolai (born in 1874) and Vladimir (born in 1882) is above the grand piano.
Nikolai Roerich was conferred the rank of the artist for this work.
The path of the Roerichs in their spiritual quest is recreated by documents and artifacts collected in the museum.
www.oblmuseums.spb.ru /eng/museums/15/guide.html   (1045 words)

  
 National Library pf Latvia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
This year the 130th anniversary of Nikolai Roerich, a world- known artist, archaeologist, philosopher, writer, traveller, the author of the Roerich Pact which manifests the protection of cultural values, was celebrated, the 125th birthday of Helena Roerich, a philosopher, who has been closely related to creating cosmic spiritual cultural philosophy– The Living Ethics.
A detailed research on the publications of the Latvian Roerich Society by G.Rudzīte is found at the collection of the proceedings of the NLL “Grāmata.
Photodocuments from the archive of the International Roerich Centre- Museum are found at the exhibition, as well as the reproductions of Nikolai and Svyatoslav’s pictures prepared by the Latvian Section of the International Roerich Centre.
www.lnb.lv /eng/events/exibitions/roerich.htm   (626 words)

  
 Nicholas Roerich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
Nicholas Roerich (October 9 1874 - December 13 1947) also known as Nikolai Konstantin(ovich) Rerikh was a Russian painter and spiritual teacher.
It was also suggestion that the U.S. dollar bill contain Great Seal of the United States known for the depiction of the Great Pyramid on the obverse of the Seal.
Today the Nicholas Roerich Museum in New City is the artistic center of Roerich's Numerous Rerikh societies continue to promote his teachings worldwide.
www.freeglossary.com /Nikolai_Roerich   (466 words)

  
 The Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
He was in Bangalore recently on the invitation of Chief Minsiter S M Krishna for the foundation laying ceremony of the Roerich Memorial at Tataguni estate on the outskirts of the City.
When the works of the elder (Nikolai) Roerich in New York were auctioned, the Russian government bought the paintings and housed them in the Roerich Museum at Moscow.
Nikolai Roerich’s elder son George’s centenary is being observed in August this year with a conference in Nagar in Kulu Valley, where the Roerich family lived.
www.india.mid.ru /sp_12.html   (877 words)

  
 Horizons - Artist Biographies - Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich
Roerich studied at the Academy of Arts and the studio of A.I. Kuindzhi (1893–1897), and later at the F. Cormon Academy in Paris (1900–1901).
Roerich’s paintings of the 1900s are unique historical reconstructions of the old cities and way of life of heathen and early Christian Russia.
In 1909, Roerich became an academician, and was one of the most authoritative artists of the day.
www.virtualmuseum.ca /Exhibitions/Horizons/En/bio-480.html   (265 words)

  
 Vladivostok News lifestyle pages
Roerich, who lived from 1874-1947, was something of an alternative to both Communist Party ideology and the Russian Orthodox religion, against which the young generation was heavily brainwashed.
Roerich himself published more than 30 books in different languages: journals, travel books, stories on the culture and art of various countries.
Roerich’s fans say that they feel a great energy coming out of Yelena’s book and Nikolai’s pictures, and some have even formed a cult around of the couple.
vn.vladnews.ru /Arch/1998/ISS163/lifestile.html   (1067 words)

  
 www.rian.ru
Roerich was called the Master of Mountains owing to the magnificent Himalayans series.
The exhibition is timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Roerich pact.
An international agreement on the protection of art and science establishments and historical monuments was signed on April 15, 1935 in the White House, Washington, in the presence of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
en.rian.ru /culture/20050415/39672488-print.html   (181 words)

  
 N. Roerikh's Estate Museum
The Roerich's memorial estate in Izvara was initiated as a museum in 1984 to commemorate the place where the famous and highly respected Russian painter and philosopher Nikolai Roerich spent his childhood and youth.
In his creative quest Roerich affirmed the power of human ability to perceive spiritual worlds in the Universe and reach an accord of inner and outer space.
The estate in Izvara belonged to his parents and 26 summers that Roerich spent here, admiring the beauty and tranquility of nature and enchanting sunsets, being into archeological digs and learning the history of Russia and its traditional culture, were the powerful beginnings of his development as an artist and thinker.
www.oblmuseums.spb.ru /eng/museums/15/info.html   (373 words)

  
 Russian culture navigator
Nikolai Rerikh's childhood and adolescence can be called happy without reservations.
They are the roots of his world outlook that emerged decades since then: the world is filled with light, with the joy of creation, with beauty, and man should intellectually advance in it.
Nikolai Rerikh believed that India and Russia were like two parts of a future country of light and happiness.
www.vor.ru /culture/cultarch90_eng.html   (1253 words)

  
 The Hindu : Roerichs Centre may take Russian Government to court in India
Russia's Roerichs Centre may take the Russian Government to Indian court over the alleged squandering of dozens of paintings by the famous Russian artist, Nikolai Roerich, and his son, Svyatoslav.
The head of the Nikolai Roerich Museum said 46 paintings by the father and son were missing from the State Oriental Museum in Moscow where they had been put for temporary caretaking 15 years ago.
She said the missing paintings were part of the 288-piece collection Svyatoslav Roerich had gifted to the non-government Soviet Roerichs Foundation (renamed International Roerichs Centre after the break-up of the Soviet Union) and the Nikolai Roerich Museum.
www.hindu.com /2004/04/01/stories/2004040110401400.htm   (421 words)

  
 Nikolai Roerich - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Nikolai Roerich - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Nikolai+Roerich   (114 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Friday marks the 100th birth anniversary of famous orientalist Yuri Roerich
The son of painter and philosopher Nikolai Roerich, he was born and graduated from the gymnasium in Russia, then spent many years abroad.
In autumn 1957 Roerich came back to Russia to head the sector of history of Indian philosophy and religion in the Institute of oriental studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
The third Altai mountain peak (between the peaks of Nikolai Roerich and Uruswati) near the sacred for local population Belukha mountain was named after Roerich.
newsfromrussia.com /culture/2002/08/15/34651.html   (2027 words)

  
 Famous Russian orientalist Yuri Roerich's 100th birth anniversary - Pravda.Ru
The son of a painter and philosopher Nikolai Roerich was born and finished a gymnasium in Russia.
From 1928 till the end of World War II, Nikolai Roerich was heading the Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute, involved in complex oriental studies.
In autumn 1957, Roerich returned to Russia to head the department of Indian philosophy and religion at the Oriental Studies Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
english.pravda.ru /culture/2002/08/16/34698.html   (421 words)

  
 Print Version The Sakhalin Times™ on the WWW   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
Nikolai Roerich was one of Russia’s greatest painters, philosophers and authors.
Roerich’s distinctive style of painting falls somewhere between surrealism and Russian icon painting.
The highlight of the Kullu area was the Roerich Castle.
www.sakhalintimes.ru /print.php?id=345_0_1_0   (510 words)

  
 Roerich,Nicholas Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Nicholas Roerich- prolific artist and writer, reowned philosopher, educator, and explorer- relates the remarkable encounters and events of his travels through central Asia and Tibet at the turn of the century.
Roerich recounts his journeys to more than fifty monasteries and his meetings with lamas eager to share their spiritual insights and heritage with the Western world.
In presenting the Heart of Asia as the first volume in the Light of Asia Series in the New Era Library, the original publisher transmitted the synthesis of Roerich's impression of the East, and his deep understanding of that great spirit which gestated in turn each religion of the world.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Roerich,Nicholas   (423 words)

  
 Helena Roerich
Helena Roerich was a Russian woman who lived at the same time as Alice Bailey.
Her writings, said to come from the Master Morya, are very straightforward and lack the tabulations and charts of occult details.
Her husband Nikolai was a gifted painter and involved in the construction of the first Buddhist temple in Europe.
home.earthlink.net /~alizarin_blaze/id26.html   (76 words)

  
 ROERICH, Nikolai, Sobranie sochineniy. (Collected Works Volume I).   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
The inscription consists of two lines of Roerich's verse: From beautiful ancient stones the stairs of the future we are building.
It states the following: The inscription and signature of Nikolai Roerich are authentic, signed by the head of the Roerich Memorial Room of the museum.
The present example is rendered especially precious by the addition of the reproductions of paintings by Roerich excised from the early twentieth century periodicals.
www.polybiblio.com /lameduck/2965.html   (196 words)

  
 Roerich - new and used books
Original blue cloth gilt, the spinefaded and a little rubbed and frayed at head and tail, otherwise a clena copy of the first edition (printed on a prelim "This is Copy No 57 of the First Edition").
Roerich, George N. Trails to Inmost Asia: Five Years of Exploration With the Roerich Central Asian Expedition
Frontis of Professor Nicholas Roerich, the leader of the expedition.
www.isbn.pl /A-ROERICH   (367 words)

  
 The 2003 CESNUR Conference - Esoteric Quests in Latvia (Krumina-Konkova)
Society of Anthroposophy, Roerich’s Society and several other theosophical groups were re-established after 1990 and are more or less active at present.
The historical Roerich Society itself follows its particular way: they keep their esoteric knowledge, avoided from fussiness and publicity.
However, one of the abiding works which was done by the Roerich’s Society bounds with its publishing activities: in 1990-ties the main works of Nikolai Roerich, letters of Helen Roerich, as well as works of Helena Blavatsky were issued by the publishing house “Uguns” (“Fire”).
www.cesnur.org /2003/vil2003_krumina.htm   (2721 words)

  
 Miskatonic University Museum Exhibit - The Art of Fred Leary
Nikolai Roerich (1874-1947) was a Russian painter who traveled through Tibet in the 1920's painting the Himalayan mountains.
His works can be seen at the Roerich Musem in New York City where Lovecraft saw them.
Flew close to some, and Carroll thought they were formed of smaller pieces, but that is probably weathering.
www.yankeeclassic.com /miskatonic/museum/exhibits/roerich/roerich.htm   (154 words)

  
 Plays: Rite of Spring, Introduction and Set Design
While the ballet's music and choreography sometimes seemed to strive for heavy and primitive effects, the sets of Nikolai Roerich seem positively ethereal.
Roerich (1874-1947) was trained as an ethnographer and visual artist.
RIGHT: Roerich's initial sketch for the first act of the ballet (click on the image for a larger version).
max.mmlc.northwestern.edu /~mdenner/Drama/plays/spring/1spring.html   (433 words)

  
 The State Russian Museum. exhibitions.
The exhibition comprises fifty-eight works of art - nineteenth-century icons and traditional lubok folk prints - restored by students of the Nikolai Roerich School of Art in St Petersburg.
Restoration work was carried out under the tutelage of such teachers of the Nikolai Roerich School of Art as I. Yarygina, O. Petrova and N. Lebedeva.
The exhibition includes works of art from museums in Arkhangelsk, Great Ustyug, Yaroslavl, Rybinsk, Kargopole, Velsk and Kenozero, as well as from the collections of the St Petersburg Theological Academy, the V. Samsonov collection and the Nikolai Roerich School of Art.
www.rusmuseum.ru /eng/exhibitions?id=24&i=4&year=2001   (159 words)

  
 АХМАТОВА + ГУМИЛЕВЫ
At the end of their Himalayas expedition, in 1928 Roerich’s family settled in the Kullu Valley, with a magnificent view of the surrounding Himalayas mountains.
Here they established their home and  headquarter of the Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute.
Under the direction of their father Roerich’s sons Yuri and Svetoslav established a collection of medicinal herbs, and made extensive studies in Tibetan and Chinese pharmacopoeia.
www.russianculture.co.uk /roerich.htm   (167 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Famous Russian orientalist Yuri Roerich's 100th birth anniversary
Yuri Roerich studied Indian philology in England, the United States and France More details...
Friday marks the 100th birth anniversary of famous orientalist Yuri Roerich
The 16th August marks the 100th birth anniversary of famous Russian orientalist Yuri Roerich.
newsfromrussia.com /culture/2002/08/16/34698.html   (1986 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Shambhala: In Search of the New Era: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
Jennifer Hoskins, New Dawn, Sept-Oct 2005 : "I recommend this Nicholas Roerich collection as essential for any metaphysical library.
The scope is breathtaking, it is deep, but at the same time wide ranging.
Through his detailed diary notes and the chronicling of legends and parables, he reveals the many facets of the tale of Shambhala, the long-awaited realization of paradise on earth.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0892813059   (315 words)

  
 RIA Novosti - Culture - ROERICH EXHIBITION OPENS IN ST. PETERSBURG
RIA Novosti - Culture - ROERICH EXHIBITION OPENS IN ST. PETERSBURG
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ST. PETERSBURG, April 14 (RIA Novosti - North-west, Dina Danilova) - An exhibition of Nikolai Roerich's paintings "A Message of Beauty" from the Himalayans series opened in the All-Russia Pushkin Museum in St. Petersburg.
en.rian.ru /culture/20050415/39672488.html   (261 words)

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