In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Ivanovna and the family name is Roerich.
Helena Roerich
Born
(1879-02-12)12 February 1879
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died
5 October 1955(1955-10-05) (aged 76)
Kalimpong, India
Era
20th-century philosophy
Region
Russian philosophy
School
Living Ethics
Helena Ivanovna Roerich (Russian: Елена Ивановна Рерих; née Shaposhnikova (Шапошникова); 12 February [O.S. 31 January] 1879 – 5 October 1955) was a Russian theosophist,[1] writer, and public figure. In the early 20th century, she created, in cooperation with the Teachers of the East, a philosophic teaching of Living Ethics ("Agni Yoga").[2] She was an organizer and participant of cultural activity in the U.S., conducted under the guidance of her husband, Nicholas Roerich. Along with her husband, she took part in expeditions of hard-to-reach and little-investigated regions of Central Asia. She was an Honorary President-Founder of the Institute of Himalayan Studies "Urusvati" in India and co-author of the idea of the International Treaty for Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historical Monuments (Roerich Pact). She translated two volumes of the Secret Doctrine of H. P. Blavatsky, and selected Mahatma's Letters (Cup of the East), from English to Russian.
^Roerich (born Shaposhnikova) / Helena Ivanovna / New philosophical encyclopedia. — Moscow, «Misl» Publishing, 2000. — V. 1–4. (in Russian)
Roerich Helena Ivanovna / «Big encyclopaedia» (in Russian)
Roerichs family: Nicholas Konstantonovich (1874—1947), Helena Ivanovna (1879—1955)[permanent dead link] / «Modern philosophical dictionary» / Compiler Gritsanov A.A. — Scientific edition. — Minsk, «V.M.Skakun» publishing, 1999. — 896 P. (in Russian)
Roerich Helena Ivanovna / «Big biographic encyclopedia» (in Russian)
Roerich Helena Ivanovna / Russian philosophy: Dictionary / Edited by M. Maslin. — Moscow, «TERRA—Knizhnii klub, Respublika» publishing, 1999. — 656 P. (in Russian)
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Living Ethics / Russian philosophy: Dictionary / Edited by M. Maslin. — Moscow, «TERRA—Knizhnii klub, Respublika» publishing, 1999. — 656 P.
Living Ethics / «Russian philosophy. Short encyclopaedia» — Moscow, «Nauka» publishing, 1995. — 624 P. (in Russian)
Roerich Helena Ivanovna / Short philosophical dictionary / Edited by A.P. Alexeev. — Second edition, revised and supplemented. — Moscow, TK Velby, Prospekt publishing. — 2004. (in Russian)
Roerich Helena Ivanovna / Big biographic encyclopedia. (in Russian)
From Resolution of International public and scientific conference «Cosmic ideology is a new thinking of the 21st century»
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