In the homeland of the Indian companion. Nikolay rerih

you are: In the homeland of the Indian companion

Talents in this person were harmoniously combined with rare diligence and amazing creative fruitfulness. It has left to us fundamental works on history, archeology, geography of Russia, the Central Asia, Mongolia, Tibet. For the life he has created seven thousand pictures on which landscapes of Northern Russia are embodied, many best creations of its ancient architecture and landscapes of India, mainly the Himalayas where in a place the Deposit in valley Kulu it has spent last twenty years of the life.

But Nikolay Roerich was not simply scientific and the artist. It was also the humanist and the democrat, the internationalist. When - in days of the Second World War fascist vandals destroyed products of world culture, he has urged all states to accept the convention in protection of the cultural values created by mankind. It has not lived till that day when in 1954 at conference in the Hague its idea has been embodied in the international document. But on justice this document is known now as ' Roerich's Convention '.

In the last years of life Nikolay Roerich planned to return home, to Soviet Union. The death has prevented it to carry out this dream. But through the son, large indologa Jury Nikolaevicha, it has transferred to the native Soviet country four hundred pictures, unique scientific library and a collection of works of art of Tibet, collected during travel. In days of the Great Patriotic War Nikolay Roerich conducted the big patriotic work, mobilizuja world public opinion in support of heroic struggle which its native land conducted against fascism.

N.Roerich, the Indian newspaper ' Neshnl gerald ', ' wrote in the editorial one of those great educators and the humanists, known to the world which is equally expensive Soviet Union also India, to two countries so close each other '. Not without justification on a tomb of the scientist and the artist in Kulu epitafija: ' Nikolay Roerich-greatest body of the Russian friend to India ' Here has been cremated.

Has passed more than thirty years after Nikolay Roerich's death. Business of cultural rapprochement of our people to which it has given so many forces, Svjatoslav Nikolaevich Roerich, the large artist and the public figure continues. It will organise exhibitions of the father and the works in India, Soviet Union and other countries. Often acts with articles about creativity of the father and the brother. Svjatoslav Roerich participates also in work of the Society of the indijsko-Soviet cultural contact. Its noble work on rapprochement of our people, in expansion of the international cultural contact is noted by high awards of India, Soviet Union, Bulgaria. Svjatoslav Roerich is selected by the honorary member of Academy of arts of the USSR.