Nicholas RoerichRussian, 1874–1947Баян
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Saint Petersburg, Russia
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
Museum text in Russian
Сюита "Богатырский фриз"
В 1909-1910 годах Рерих исполнил серию панно "Богатырский фриз" для особняка видного промышленника и почетного гражданина Петербурга Ф. Г. Бажанова. Дом был построен по проекту архитектора П. Р. Алешина в 1907-1908 годах в стиле модерн. Каждый его интерьер отличался неповторимым оформлением, но тема героической Древней Руси была доминирующей. Гостиную украшал майоликовый камин "Вольга и Микула", исполненный по эскизу М. А. Врубеля, а панно Рериха размещались в столовой. Серия состояла из восьми сюжетных ("Садко", "Витязь", "Баян", "Илья Муромец", "Микула Селянинович", "Город", "Вольга Святославович", "Соловей-разбойник") и одиннадцати декоративных композиций. Создание монументального "Богатырского фриза" стало в творчестве художника кульминацией его обращения к теме былин.
State Russian Museum
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- Accession number
- Ж-7959
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In the catalog
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- State Russian Museum
- Image: State Russian Museum — © State Russian Museum
In the life of Nicholas Roerich
The whole life1909
Elected an academician
In 1909 Roerich is elected an academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts, as well as a member of the Council of the Society for the Protection and Preservation of Monuments of Art and Antiquity in Russia and chairman of the Commission of the Museum of Pre-Petrine Art and Life.
1909–1913
Diaghilev's Russian Seasons: sets and a libretto
In Paris, Borodin's “Polovtsian Dances” from “Prince Igor” and Rimsky-Korsakov's “The Maid of Pskov” are staged in Roerich's designs; for the ballet “The Rite of Spring”, to music by Stravinsky, he creates the costumes and sets and also writes the libretto.
1910
Becomes head of “The World of Art”
From 1910 Roerich heads the artistic association “The World of Art”, whose members include Benois, Bakst, Grabar, Serov, Petrov-Vodkin, Kustodiev, Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Serebriakova and others.
1910
Novgorod: excavations and the defence of the Saviour at Nereditsa
In summer 1910 Roerich carries out the first archaeological excavations in Novgorod together with Nikolai Makarenko, and the same year he campaigns for the fate of the Church of the Saviour at Nereditsa and the Rurik Gorodishche; he is also troubled by crude restorations of churches in Yaroslavl, Pskov and Kostroma.
