Nicholas Roerich

Nicholas Roerich (Russian: Николай Рерих, 1874 - 1947) was a Russian painter, archaeologist, stage scenographer, writer, and spiritual philosopher. He is known for his landscape paintings, his interest in mysticism, hypnotism and Buddhism, his extensive travels through Asia, and his outspoken activism for the preservation of artistic and archaeological artifacts. After the revolution of 1917, Roerich and his family left Russia and spent time in several countries, including Finland, England, the USA, and finally India, where he resided until his death.
In At the Mountains of Madness, by H. P. Lovecraft, protagonist William Dyer reminisces that the sight of the Antarctic mountain range discovered by the Pabodie Expedition reminds him of "the strange and disturbing Asian paintings of Nicholas Roerich, and of the still stranger and more disturbing descriptions of the evilly fabled plateau of Leng which occur in the dreaded Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred". Later on both Dyer and Lake comment on how the architecture of the Elder Things' city remind them of Roerich's Asian paintings.
In the Doctor Who crossover novel White Darkness, an unexpurgated copy of the Necronomicon formerly owned by Aleister Crowley contains passages written in the Eocene language and original illustrations by Roerich.
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