Aleksandr I. Andreev, Dany Savelli, eds., Rerikhi: Mify i fakty

Of the many prominent figures of early twentieth-century Russian culture, the painter, stage designer, explorer, writer, and creator of the Roerich Pact Nicholas Roerich (Nikolai Rerikh, 1874-1947) is one whose degree of prestige and cult-like popularity in post-Soviet Russia is curiously contrasted with his relative obscurity abroad. Nonetheless, following the explosion of interest in Roerich in Russia since the 1980s, and above all the significant influence of Agni Yoga, the spiritual movem...