NIKOLAI and ELENA ROERICH
YURI
and SVETOSLAV
N.
Roerich. Madonna Oriflamma
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“I dedicated my
books to Helena, my wife, friend, traveling companion, inspirer! Each of
these concepts was tested in the fire of life. And in Petersburg,
Scandinavia, England, America, and in all Asia we worked, we studied, we
broadened our consciousness. Together we created, and not without reason is
it said that the work should bear two names -- a feminine and a masculine.” (Quotation from
Nikolai Roerich). 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. The
Institute's activities included botanical and ethnological-linguistic
studies, and the exploration of archeological sites. 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. Svetoslav also establish
himself as an artist. In the 60s as a family trustee he brought back to
Russia his father’s paintings, and teaching. |
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