ROERICH NICHOLAS (1874-1947), AUTOGRAPH Handwritten letter addressed to Denis Roche in Paris. Gapsal (Estland Province), June 28, 1910.

2 pages of double leaves, envelope with stamps, passed through the mail. Expresses gratitude for the letter and catalogue, notes: "As I suspected, Makovsky failed to organize the exhibition," mentions his upcoming trip to Novgorod, and writes about new works such as "Beyond the Seas of Great Lands," "Varangian Woman," described as "similar to Unkrada but much more successful," and "On the Shore of the Northern Sea." Mentions photographer Karl Kubesch (1872-1941), who did not come to photograph "Mikula," and the artwork "Idols," exhibited in Brussels, which "Kubesch captured very poorly." 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 prevailing works were theatrical and decorative. In 1911, the XV Archaeological Congress was scheduled to take place in Novgorod. The organizers proposed to Roerich, on the eve of the congress, to conduct archaeological excavations at Ryurikovo Gorodishche. Rerikh enthusiastically accepted the offer and, along with his brother Boris and archaeologist Makarenko, began the work in the summer of 1910. 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."