Nicholas RoerichRussian, 1874–1947Народ
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Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Museum text in Russian
Впервые Рерих обратился к опере Бородина „Князь Игорь“ в 1909 году, когда ее отдельные фрагменты были включены Дягилевым в Русские сезоны в Париже.
В 1914 году в Лондоне Дягилев осуществил постановку оперы полностью в четырех действиях с прологом, вновь пригласив Рериха для оформления спектакля. Опера имела успех. Партию Кончака исполнял Шаляпин.
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К сожалению, Рерих не смог присутствовать на премьере. Художник Орест Аллегри сообщал ему: „Вчера вечером шел „Игорь“ при полном зале; успех был большой, англичане от восторга рычали!“ Рерих исполнил декорации за короткий промежуток времени: конец 1913 – начало 1914 года. Яркое узорочье костюмов персонажей, праздничный колорит архитектуры, носящей порой сказочный характер, создали притягательный образ далекого прошлого, наполненного жизненной силой. Успех лондонской постановки во многом был связан с оформлением спектакля. Наталья Соломатина // Дягилев и его эпоха. СПб, 2001. С. 240 .
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In the life of Nicholas Roerich
The whole life1909–1913
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.
1913
Plans for an Indian expedition with Golubev
Roerich has been friends and in correspondence with the Indologist Viktor Golubev since 1906; in 1913 they discuss a joint expedition to India to study what Russian and Indian cultures have in common, and a museum of Indian culture in St Petersburg. He also works with Agvan Dorzhiev and other Russian Buddhists, and between 1909 and 1915 takes part in building and decorating the St Petersburg Buddhist temple.
1915
A report to the Emperor on protecting cultural treasures
Roerich reports to Nicholas II and Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich the Younger, urging serious state measures for the nationwide protection of cultural treasures and the enactment of a law on the protection of historical monuments; the draft of this regulation will become the prototype of the future international Pact for the protection of cultural property.
1916
Lung illness and a move to Finland
Because of a severe lung illness, and on the insistence of his doctors, Roerich moves with his family to the Grand Duchy of Finland near Serdobol (Vuorio) on the shore of Lake Ladoga; proximity to Petrograd lets him keep up with the affairs of the school of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts.
