10. Nicholas Roerich, Shambhala (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1930), 11.

11. Nicholas Roerich became Fuiama; Helena, Urusvati; George and Svetoslav Roerich, Udraia and Liumou; Morris Lichtmann, Avirakh; Sina Lichtmann, Radna; her sister Esther Lichtmann, Oiana; Louis Horch, Logvan; his wife Netty, Poruma; George Grebenstchikof , Turukhan; and Frances Grant, Modra. All these names were derived from legendary and mythological Hindu and Buddhist characters. Henry Wallace, who joined the group in 1933 and became a trusted friend, was the only one in this group without a Hindu-Buddhist name; the politician was named Galahad at er the seeker of the legendary Holy Grail.

12. Fosdick, Moi uchitelia, 105.

13. Nicholas Roerich, Altai-Himalaya: A Travel Diary (London: Jarrolds, 1929), 15.

14. Nicholas Roerich, Shambhala, 47, 5, 61.

15. Nikolai Kordashevsky (Dekroa), Tibetskie stranstviia polkovnika Korda-shevskogo [Tibetan Wanderings of Colonel Kordashevsky] (St. Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 1999), 80.

16. Helena Roerich, Vysokii put’ , vol. 1: 45, 51, 65 (see preface, n. 7).

17. Ibid., 85–86, 95, 124, 154.

18. Fosdick, Moi uchitelia, 202.

19. Helena Roerich, Pis’ma, 38.

20. Roerich’s friend the White émigré writer General Peter Krasnov might be another possible source of the Great Plan. In his novel Beyond h istle (1922), he wrote that Russia’s revival would come from Tibet.

21. Helena Roerich, Vysokii put’, 154.

22. Andreev, Gimalaiskoe bratstvo, 241.

23. M. Dubaev, Kharbinskaia taina Rerikha [Roerich’s Harbin Mystery] (Moscow: Sfera, 2001), 211.

24. Fosdick, Moi uchitelia, 197.

25. Depending on context, the Tibetan word dorje could mean “hard,” “arrow,”

or “lightining.”

26. Nicholas Roerich, Altai-Himalaya, 14.

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1. Fosdick, Moi uchitelia, 206 (see chap. 7, n. 4).

2. Helena Roerich, Tetrad’ [Notebook], entries for 5/22/1924 and 5/29/1924, http://urusvati.agni-age.net/ (accessed April 10, 2010).

3. Andreev, Gimalaiskoe bratstvo, 283 (see chap. 7, n. 3).

4. Ibid., 286.

5. Fosdick, Moi uchitelia, 242 (see chap. 7, n. 4).

6. Helena Roerich, “Pis’ma Eleny Roerich k sinu Svetoslavu [Helena Roerich’s Letter to Her Son Svetoslav],” Vestnik Ariavarty [Messenger of Aryavarta]

1 (2001): 48.

7. Petrosian, “O buddiiskikh raionakh,” p. 62 (see chap. 5, n. 12).

8. Helena Roerich, Vysokii put’, vol. 1, 479, 511 (see preface, n. 7).

9. Fosdick, Moi uchitelia, 206 (see chap. 7, n. 4).

10. Helena Roerich, Vysokii put’, vol. 1, 322, 289 (see preface, n. 7).

11. Rosov, Nikolai Rerikh vestnik Zvenigoroda, vol. 1, 135 (see preface, n. 9).

12. Viktor Brachev, Okkultisty sovetskoi epokhi [Occultists of the Soviet Age]

(Moscow: Bystrov, 2007), 234–35.

13. Nicholas Roerich, Altai-Gimalai (Moscow: Sfera, 1999), 656. In the 1929

English edition, this episode with the OGPU agent was deleted (Roerich, Altai-Himalaya, 333 [see chap. 7, n. 13]).

14. Fosdick, Moi uchitelia, 265 (see chap. 7, n. 4).

15. Rosov, Nikolai Rerikh vestnik Zvenigoroda, vol. 1, 180 (see preface, n. 9).

16. h is program was spelled out to Helena by Master Morya on March 18, 1926, during one of their spiritual talks (Helena Roerich, Vysokii put’, vol.

1, 462 [see preface, n. 7]).

17. Ibid., 465.

18. For more about the life of this daredevil, see Aleksei Velidov, Pokhozhdeni-ia terrorista: odisseia Iakova Bliumkina [Adventures of a Terrorist: Jacob Bliumkin’s Odyssey] (Moscow: Sovremennik, 1998).

19. “Pokazania doktora K. N. Riabinina [Testimony of Dr. K. N. Riabinin], July 23-24, 1930,” Ariavarta 1 (1997): 174.

20. Nicholas Roerich, Shambhala (see chap. 7, n. 10), 45; Altai-Himalaya, 336

(see chap. 7, n. 13).

21. Fosdick, Moi uchitelia, 262 (see chap. 7, n. 4).

22. Nicholas Roerich, Altai Himalaya, 353 (see chap. 7, n. 13).

23. Yu. L. Krol, “Boris Ivanovich Pankratov,” Strany i narody Vostoka [Countries and Peoples of the East] 26 (1989): 90.

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