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Roerich

American  
[rur-ik, ryaw-ryikh] / ˈrɜr ɪk, ˈrjɔ rjɪx /

noun

  1. Nicholas Konstantinovich 1874–1947, Russian painter, archaeologist, and author; in the U.S. after 1920.


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"After her marriage to Roerich, she probably got the life she wanted," Ms Desai says.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2023

But in 1945, she sold her shares, married Svetoslav Roerich and moved to the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, and eventually relocated to Bangalore.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2023

When the company was born in 1909, its designers Alexandre Benois, Léon Bakst and Nicholas Roerich combined hues with an intensity hitherto unknown on Western stages.

From New York Times ● May 23, 2013

One artistic cousin of Tolkien is the Russian early 20th-century painter Nicolas Roerich, who was fascinated by the journeys of the Vikings into medieval Russia.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012

I must confess that this vision made a deep impression on me, and I at once described it to my friend, Nicholas Roerich, he being a painter who had specialized in pagan subjects.

From An Autobiography by Igor Stravinsky

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