Painter, scientist, traveler, public figure, writer. Nicholas Roerich’s creative heritage is enormous – more than seven thousand paintings scattered all over the world, numberless literary works – books, essays, articles, diaries…

Nicholas Roerich enriched our knowledge of Asian folklore with legends about Maitreyi, the future Buddha – the liberator of oppressed and humiliated, and with new versions of legends about the exploits of Geser-Khan the eradicator of ten evils in ten sides of the world, and, finally, with series of little known legends about the secret land of Shambala, or Belovodje where a wise and just way of life is established and where the Teachers of good, the keepers of knowledge, necessary for the better future of peoples.