🎨 #OTD, on October 23, 1904, 120 years ago, Svetoslav Roerich, an outstanding Russian painter, thinker and continuator of a great dynasty, was born in St Petersburg.

🤔 The talented artist from childhood expressed interest in natural sciences, ornithology, mineralogy, which was later reflected in a unique perception of nature through his paintings.

🖼 Portrait mastery became a special page in the master's creative path — his works featured the ability to reveal the inner world of a person, convey the spiritual and emotional appearance of the model.

🇮🇳 India became his second homeland, where he created many wonderful paintings that captured the richness of local culture and philosophy. Svetoslav Roerich's artistic legacy manifests itself in a harmonious synthesis of Western and Eastern traditions, embodied in exquisite technique and deep symbolic content of paintings.

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