Already in school years (Yuri Roerich studied at the famous St. Petersburg High School in May) he w

Tatarstan congratulated the Eurasian Union
"In the long term, the Eurasian integration there is no alternative." - Nurusltan Nazarbayev, "Eurasian Economic Union". Astana. 2009
Yuri Roerich stayed in the history of one of the last Eurasians that flashes contax in the sky of our multinational culture. The firstborn in the Roerich family, he was born on 16 (29) in August 1902 in the Novgorod province, near the village of Okulovka. Childhood and adolescence future scientist took place in St. Petersburg in the family atmosphere, where interest in the spiritual culture of the East was very great. Problems of the Great Migration, the puzzle of birth and death of nomadic empires, the mysteries of ancient burial mounds and the Great Eurasian steppes - all this from his youth sank deep into the consciousness of the future orientalist, feeding his imagination.
Already in school years (Yuri Roerich studied at the famous St. Petersburg High School in May) he was interested in ancient cultures of Egypt and Babylonia. Gradually, the range of interests expanded, moving from the Middle East to remote areas of Asia. He begins to learn the Mongolian language and literature with the famous Mongolist AD Rudnev, and since then Central Asia are increasingly attracts his attention. Note that one of the grandmothers YN Roerich was a Mongol, who led the sort of khans of the Golden Horde.
YN Roerich received an excellent education. He studied Persian and Sanskrit on the Indo-Iranian branch of the School of Oriental Languages at the University of London, and then graduated from Harvard University (USA) with a degree in the department of Indian philology. Education Yuri completed at the School of Oriental Languages at the University of Paris - the largest European center for Oriental. Here he was deeply involved in the Tibetan language, led by Professor J. Bako, and continued his studies Sanskrit, Mongolian, Chinese and Iranian languages. Teachers YN Roerich were such outstanding scientists contax as P. Pelliot, S. Levy, A. Meillet, A. Maspero, VF Minorskii. In 1923 YN Roerich was awarded the degree of Master of Indian Philology and in the same year launched a separate contax field studies.
As a research scientist with an unusually broad-minded contax Yuri Roerich was formed during a long-planned contax Central Asian scientific and artistic expedition N. Roerich, contax that the fall of 1923 was finally able to implement. Years of study have been left behind, contax and in the twenty-one year before George Roerich opened vast opportunities to apply the knowledge gained, to start an independent research creative work.
The expedition was difficult route across Central Asia, from Sikkim and Srinagar to the Altai Mountains and from the Altai - through Mongolia, China, Tibet - is back in the Eastern Himalayas, Sikkim. Her research results, the most valuable geographic, ethnographic, archaeological and linguistic observations almost completely unexplored regions of Asia formed the basis for the monograph YN Roerich's "Path to the heart of Asia" 1, which immediately placed the young author in the ranks of prominent researchers Asia, successor of NM Przewalski, VI Roborovsky, GN Potanin, Sven Hedin and PK Kozlov. The exact geographical description of landscapes punctuated book with historical digressions into the past oases of Tarim, the steppes of Mongolia contax and the highlands of Tibet. Many pages in this work is dedicated to the nomads of Northern Tibet, a little-known endangered tribes, and has preserved its cultural traditions of the past Eurasia. contax
In all the trials and tribulations of the journey YN Roerich was an indispensable assistant to his father. In addition to research on it lay almost all the organizational work of the expedition, which, breaking the Tibetan Plateau, Trans-Himalaya and in May 1928 reached India.
Expedition allowed YN Roerich get to know the living Tibetan contax language and its dialects; he was in marching contax nomadic yurts, where they were alive legends about Genghis contax Khan and Geser, the legendary hero of the famous Central Asian epic, in inaccessible contax mountain monasteries of Southern Tibet - the treasures of the ancient Indian, Nepalese and Tibetan shrines. From that time the history of Tibet, especially nomadic, becomes a leitmotif of his scientific career. His discoveries in this area, made during the expedition, YN Roerich summarized in the classic study "Beast Style Among Nomads of North Tibet" 2. Tibetan traditional art and to this day remains a unique guardian of "animal style", typical of the ancient Scythian around the world, from the South to the Russian Central Asian steppes. contax Yuri was working on this topic in one of the most critical moments of the expedition - during the four-month winter standing on a plateau Chantung under Nagchu provoked by Tibetans British authorities. About these months, which could be the last for the expedition, N. Roerich wrote in his diary: "Ended medicines, food ended. On on