International studio . WELCOME TO THE SUNBY NICOLAS ROERICH(Skidelski Collec 63 A RUSSIAN PAINTER : N. K. ROERICH. THE idols (pagan RUSSIASERIES). BY NICOLAS ROERICH] paintings are stately, sonorous, unhurried—untranslatable in their ancient essays on ancient Russia unfold apanorama that makes you hold your Russia herself (instead of the Bolsheviks)offered him all the opportunities for theapplication of his gifts—he might reju-venate the exhausted country by reimbuingher with the charms of her own youth ! a Russia has absorbed the elements ofbeauty from all who ever crossed
International studio . WELCOME TO THE SUNBY NICOLAS ROERICH(Skidelski Collec 63 A RUSSIAN PAINTER : N. K. ROERICH. THE idols (pagan RUSSIASERIES). BY NICOLAS ROERICH] paintings are stately, sonorous, unhurried—untranslatable in their ancient essays on ancient Russia unfold apanorama that makes you hold your Russia herself (instead of the Bolsheviks)offered him all the opportunities for theapplication of his gifts—he might reju-venate the exhausted country by reimbuingher with the charms of her own youth ! a Russia has absorbed the elements ofbeauty from all who ever crossed herland, not only from the hired Scandi-navian princes and warriors, from theirreckless highwaymen and merchants, fromthe Byzantine missionaries and the Asiaticcaravans, but even from her oppressorsthe Tartars. All these elements became 64 blended in the mind of the unsophisticatedRussian with the clarity of his primitiveconceptions, with that clarity whichis the more striking the more mysticalthe object of the idea would seem to is this very clarity, this simplicity ofgreatness, that is refle
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