1874 - 1947
Nicholas Roerich (; October 9, 1874 – December 13, 1947) – known also as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh (Russian: Никола́й Константи́нович Ре́рих) – was a Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, theosophist, philosopher, and public figure, who in his youth was influenced by a movement in Russian society around the spiritual. He was interested in hypnosis and other spiritual practices and his paintings are said to have hypnotic expression.Born in Saint Petersburg, to a well-to-do notary public Baltic German father and a Russian mother, Roerich lived in various places around the world until his death in Naggar, Himachal Pradesh, India. Trained as an artist and a lawyer, his main interests were literature, philosophy, archaeology, and especially art. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicholas Roerich has received more than 586,701 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Nicholas Roerich is the 204th most popular painter (up from 214th in 2019), the 191st most popular biography from Russia (up from 198th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Painter.
Nicholas Roerich was a Russian painter, philosopher, archaeologist, and public figure. He is most famous for his paintings of the Himalayas.
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Among painters, Nicholas Roerich ranks 204 out of 1,428. Before him are Luca Giordano, Jeanne Hébuterne, Suzanne Valadon, Margaret Keane, Hans Baldung, and František Kupka. After him are Ivan Shishkin, Aristide Maillol, Pietro da Cortona, Andrea Pozzo, Gerard van Honthorst, and Andrea del Castagno.
1634 - 1705
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 198
1898 - 1920
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 199
1865 - 1938
HPI: 73.57
Rank: 200
1927 - Present
HPI: 73.57
Rank: 201
1484 - 1545
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 202
1871 - 1957
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 203
1874 - 1947
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 204
1832 - 1898
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 205
1861 - 1944
HPI: 73.41
Rank: 206
1596 - 1669
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 207
1642 - 1709
HPI: 73.23
Rank: 208
1592 - 1656
HPI: 73.21
Rank: 209
1420 - 1457
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 210
Among people born in 1874, Nicholas Roerich ranks 24. Before him are G. K. Chesterton, Carl Bosch, António Egas Moniz, Sunjong of Korea, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Nikolai Berdyaev. After him are Ernest Shackleton, Karl Kraus, Gustav Holst, Konstantin Päts, Inessa Armand, and August Krogh. Among people deceased in 1947, Nicholas Roerich ranks 25. Before him are Anton Denikin, Halford Mackinder, Karl Mannheim, Ernst Lubitsch, Pierre Bonnard, and Frederick Gowland Hopkins. After him are Han van Meegeren, Victor Lustig, Irving Fisher, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, and Luigi Russolo.
1874 - 1936
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 18
1874 - 1940
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 19
1874 - 1955
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 20
1874 - 1926
HPI: 74.63
Rank: 21
1874 - 1929
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 22
1874 - 1948
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 23
1874 - 1947
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 24
1874 - 1922
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 25
1874 - 1936
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 26
1874 - 1934
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 27
1874 - 1956
HPI: 72.80
Rank: 28
1874 - 1920
HPI: 72.34
Rank: 29
1874 - 1949
HPI: 72.23
Rank: 30
1872 - 1947
HPI: 74.67
Rank: 19
1861 - 1947
HPI: 74.66
Rank: 20
1893 - 1947
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 21
1892 - 1947
HPI: 74.31
Rank: 22
1867 - 1947
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 23
1861 - 1947
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 24
1874 - 1947
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 25
1889 - 1947
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 26
1890 - 1947
HPI: 72.49
Rank: 27
1867 - 1947
HPI: 72.43
Rank: 28
1902 - 1947
HPI: 72.36
Rank: 29
1879 - 1947
HPI: 72.35
Rank: 30
1885 - 1947
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 31
Among people born in Russia, Nicholas Roerich ranks 191 out of 2,688. Before him are Yemelyan Pugachev (1742), Sabina Spielrein (1885), Yakov Sverdlov (1885), Seraphim of Sarov (1754), Wladimir Köppen (1846), and Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (1657). After him are Ivan Shishkin (1832), Alexander Herzen (1812), Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (1599), Ilya Frank (1908), Vladimir Solovyov (1853), and Pitirim Sorokin (1889).
1742 - 1775
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 185
1885 - 1942
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 186
1885 - 1919
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 187
1754 - 1833
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 188
1846 - 1940
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 189
1657 - 1704
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 190
1874 - 1947
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 191
1832 - 1898
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 192
1812 - 1870
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 193
1599 - 1655
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 194
1908 - 1990
HPI: 73.38
Rank: 195
1853 - 1900
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 196
1889 - 1968
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 197
Among painters born in Russia, Nicholas Roerich ranks 3. Before him are Wassily Kandinsky (1866) and Andrei Rublev (1360). After him are Ivan Shishkin (1832), Natalia Goncharova (1881), Viktor Vasnetsov (1848), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), Alexej von Jawlensky (1864), Vasily Vereshchagin (1842), Karl Bryullov (1799), Lovis Corinth (1858), and Mikhail Vrubel (1856).
1866 - 1944
HPI: 85.01
Rank: 1
1360 - 1428
HPI: 78.88
Rank: 2
1874 - 1947
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 3
1832 - 1898
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 4
1881 - 1962
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 5
1848 - 1926
HPI: 72.24
Rank: 6
1837 - 1887
HPI: 71.80
Rank: 7
1864 - 1941
HPI: 70.96
Rank: 8
1842 - 1904
HPI: 70.67
Rank: 9
1799 - 1852
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 10
1858 - 1925
HPI: 69.67
Rank: 11
1856 - 1910
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 12