{"id":12182,"date":"2025-03-16T20:25:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T20:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.camruss.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=12182"},"modified":"2025-04-02T22:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:17:18","slug":"in-search-of-true-beauty-and-genuine-knowledge-the-life-and-work-of-nicholas-roerich-by-dr-natalia-budanova","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/events\/in-search-of-true-beauty-and-genuine-knowledge-the-life-and-work-of-nicholas-roerich-by-dr-natalia-budanova\/","title":{"rendered":"In Search of True Beauty and Genuine Knowledge: The Life and Work of Nicholas Roerich by Dr Natalia Budanova (in Russian)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_12184\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12184\" class=\"wp-image-12184\" src=\"https:\/\/www.camruss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/\u041a\u0440\u0430\u0441\u043d\u044b\u0435-\u043a\u043e\u043d\u0438-1925.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"205\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Horses by Nicholas Roerich, 1925<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>General public knows<strong> Nicholas Roerich <\/strong>(1874-1947) primarily as the author of numerous mountain landscapes, whose paintings are kept in the Russian Museum (St Petersburg), the Tretyakov Gallery and the Museum of Oriental Art (both Moscow), Nicolas Roerich Museum (New York), Roerich Estate at the Kullu Valley in India,\u00a0 \u00a0as well as private collections around the world. But his activities were not limited exclusively to artistic creativity. A writer, traveller, archaeologist, stage designer, philosopher and public figure, Roerich revived ancient Russian crafts, participated in excavations of ancient burial sites, created the philosophical doctrine of &#8220;Living Ethics&#8221; and drew up the first international agreement on the protection of cultural values, known as the \u2018Roerich Pact\u2019. N. Budanova in her lecture &#8220;In Search of True Beauty and Genuine Knowledge&#8221; offers insights into the biography and prolific career of this remarkable man.<\/p>\n<p><b>When: <\/b>Mon 28 April, 18:30-20:30 (BST)<br \/>\n<b>Where: <\/b>The Old Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, CB2 1RG<br \/>\n<strong>Language:<\/strong> The lecture will be delivered in Russian, with presentation slides provided in English<br \/>\n<strong>Format:<\/strong> In person &amp; Online via Zoom<br \/>\n<strong>In person tickets: <\/strong>\u00a35 \u2013 CamRuss members &amp; concessions; \u00a38 \u2013 Standard<br \/>\n<strong>Zoom tickets:<\/strong> \u00a35 \u2013 Standard (includes video recording), Free \u2013 CamRuSS members &amp; students.<br \/>\n<strong>Access to video recording:<\/strong> Free for CamRuSS members, \u00a35 for all others.<br \/>\n<strong>This event will be followed by a drinks reception.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Please book\u00a0via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/allevents.in\/cambridge\/in-search-of-true-beauty-and-genuine-knowledge-the-life-and-work-of-nicholas-roerich\/80001695497121?ref=smdl\">AllEvents<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12183\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12183\" class=\" wp-image-12183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.camruss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_6871-797x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/camruss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_6871-797x1024.jpeg 797w, https:\/\/camruss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_6871-234x300.jpeg 234w, https:\/\/camruss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_6871-1196x1536.jpeg 1196w, https:\/\/camruss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_6871.jpeg 1391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natalia Budanova<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Dr Natalia Y. Budanov<\/strong>a (PhD Courtauld Institute of Art) is an art historian and the author of publications on the art of the Silver Age, the early Russian avant-garde and the work of women artists of pre-revolutionary Russia. Her book <em>Two Women Patrons of the Russian Avant-garde<\/em> (co-authored with Dr N. Murray), London: Unicorn, 2021, explores the formation of the Russian art market and the activities of the first private galleries in Moscow and St Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General public knows Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) primarily as the author of numerous mountain landscapes, whose paintings are kept in the Russian Museum (St Petersburg), the Tretyakov Gallery and the Museum of Oriental Art (both Moscow), Nicolas Roerich Museum (New York), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/events\/in-search-of-true-beauty-and-genuine-knowledge-the-life-and-work-of-nicholas-roerich-by-dr-natalia-budanova\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[47,64,327,329,323,326,324,330,328,325,332,331,335,333,334],"tribe_events_cat":[14,52,19,16,23],"class_list":["post-12182","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tag-art","tag-history","tag-living-ethics","tag-natalia-budanova","tag-nicholas-roerich","tag-philosophy","tag-roerich","tag-russian-art","tag-the-art-of-the-silver-age","tag-traveller","tag-332","tag-331","tag-335","tag-333","tag-334","tribe_events_cat-arthistory","tribe_events_cat-culture","tribe_events_cat-language","tribe_events_cat-literature","tribe_events_cat-talk","cat_arthistory","cat_culture","cat_language","cat_literature","cat_talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12182"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=12182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}