ROERICH NICHOLAS (1874-1947), AUTOGRAPH Handwritten letter addressed to Denis Roche in Paris. St.Petersburg, April 15, 1910.

2 pages of double leaves. In Russian. Official envelope of the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, with stamps, postage-passed. Congratulates on the Bright Easter holiday, mentions that the photographer Karl Kubesch (1872-1941) did not have time to capture "Mikula." "Had to shoot 'The Saga of the North,' but it turned out poorly." States that this painting and "Heavenly Battle" will be at Makovsky's exhibition at Bernheim's and inquires about opinions on this exhibition. In 1910, K. Makovsky organized the exhibition "World of Art" at the Bernheim-Jeune gallery in Paris. Among the participants were L.S. Bakst, A.N. Benois, M.V. Dobuzhinsky, A.Ya. Golovin, K.S. Petrov-Vodkin, N.K. Roerich. The predominant works were theatrical and decorative. Denis Roche (1868-1951) was a French writer and translator. Intrigued by the Russian language, he traveled to St. Petersburg in 1898, where he met Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Repin. He translated works by N. Leskov, I. Turgenev, I. Shmelev, V. Nabokov, and other authors from Russian. Roche's translation resulted in a twenty-volume collection of Chekhov's works, and in 1928, he was awarded the Langlois Prize by the French Academy for translating the story "Neighbors."