Chapter Eight
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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24. In 1929 Berlin was appointed the oi cial controller of Boris Roerich (one of Nicholas’s brothers), who remained in Red Russia and was blackmailed by the Bolshevik secret police into becoming a secret informant.
25. Fosdick, Moi uchitelia, 275-276 (see chap. 7, n. 4); Vladimir Rosov, “Arkhitekhtor B. K. Rerikh: Rassekrechennoe arkhivnoe delo N. 2538 [Architectural Designer B. K. Roerich: Declassii ed File No. 2538],” Vestnik Ariavarty
[Messenger of Aryavarta] 10 (2008): 46. Moscow investigative reporter Oleg Shishkin came up with an unlikely argument that, dressed as a lama, Bliumkin actually joined the Roerichs and accompanied them to Tibet (Oleg Shishkin, Bitva za Gimalaii, 128–29 [see preface, n. 10). h ere was no way for Bliumkin, an urbanite Jew from Odessa, to pose as a lama and be unnoticed. Even the indigenous Bolshevik “lama pilgrims” with Asiatic facial features, like Sergei Borisov (Oirot) and Arashi Chapchaev (Kalmyk), sent by the Soviets to Lhasa did not make it undetected. h e Tibetans and Lt.
Colonel Bailey quickly cracked the identity of all these “pilgrims.” So, as attractive as it may sound, the story of Bliumkin posing as a lama should be put to rest.
26. h e radiogram was intercepted by local White émigrés (Andreev, Gimalaiskoe bratstvo, 330 (see chap. 7, n. 3).
27. Nicholas Roerich, Shambhala, 295 (see chap. 7, n. 10).
28. Nicholas Roerich, Altai-Himalaya, 107 (see chap. 7, n. 13).
29. Kordashevsky, Tibetskie stranstviia, 90 (see chap. 7, n. 15).
30. Helena Roerich, Vysokii put’, vol. 1, 512, 513, 519 (see preface, n. 7).
