ROERICH NICHOLAS (1874-1947), AUTOGRAPH Handwritten letter addressed to Denis Roche in Paris. Februay 5, 1908.

2 pages of a double folio, envelope with stamps, passed through mail. It informs that 'Sketch '3 Magi' [3 Volkhva] is being sent under your name as per your permission', also mentioning a sketch for the opera 'Snegurochka': 'If you manage to see how these decorations are painted, I would be glad to hear from you about it'. The first staging of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera 'Snegurochka' with Roerich's decorations took place in Paris in 1908. Deni Roche (1868-1951) was a French writer and translator. Intrigued by the Russian language, he made a trip 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 of Chekhov's works was published in twenty volumes, and in 1928, he was awarded the Langlois Prize by the French Academy for his translation of the story 'Neighbors'.