Nikolay Konstantinovich Roerich

Nikolay Konstantinovich Roerich (1874-1947)

The range of of N.K. Roerich‘s activity is extraordinary wide - the artist, the archeologist, the ethnographer, the jurist, the geographer, the historian, the writer, the philosopher and the traveller. N.K. Roerich has created more than 7000 works of art. He It worked in the field of monumental art, has left sets of sketches for suits, furniture, an embroidery, etc.

Nikolay Roerich was generated as the artist and the public figure of culture at the end of XIX - the beginning of XX century. After graduation from St. Petersburg university and the Academy of Arts he started studying the culture of Russia. The knowledge of history, numerous archeological excavations helped Roerich to display an image of the native nature in a new fashion and a step of progress of thousand-year history of Russian people. N.K. Roerich's original outlook was based on belief, that increase of spiritual culture changes the life on the ground, to win ignorance, platitude, wars.

Nikolay Roerich was the first who invented so-called "Pakt of Roerich ", the idea of protection of monuments of culture of all mankind in a wartime. In 1954 in the Hague UN took into account the idea of Nikolay Roerich and created on the basis of the pact the International convention on protection of cultural values in a wartime.
Investigating ancient Russian art, N.K.Rerih was curious in a question of resettlement of people and interference of cultures. Its special attention was involved with India. The artist developed extensive plans of traveling to the East, which carried out together with wife Elena Ivanovna, sons Jury and Sviatoslav. During these research expeditions he collected a lot of ancient manuscripts, works of art, unique materials on archeology, botany, geology, philosophy, linguistics, medicine have been collected, etc.

In 1928 N.K. Roerich based in India the Himalaya college of scientific researches "Urusvati". Working in India, the artist created wide range of picturesque and graphic works which open beauty of East Mountains, valleys, stony looses. N.K. Roerich stated that majestic beauty of the nature is that eternal source which ennobles and improves a human soul. The artist developed original colorful palette, which now is called "Roerichs'". Roerich's palette is dark blue, turquoise, lilac, pink, yellow colors different light density.

In 1947 the artist died in India and his ash was dispelled near to the house in Kulu (India). The basic part of a creative heritage of the master has come back to Russia. The greater collection of works of N.K. Roerich belongs to the State Russian Museum, State Tretyakovskaya Art Gallery, the Museum of N.K.Roerich in Moscow and Odessa Art Museum.

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