* 1947 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian-born painter ( b. 1874 )

* 1874 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter ( d. 1947 )

Guests from Overseas, Nicholas Roerich ( 1899 )

Late in the campaign the Republicans obtained letters written by Henry A. Wallace, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, to controversial Russian mystic Nicholas Roerich, who had invented an eclectic religion based on Tibetan Buddhism.

* May 29 – The ballet The Rite of Spring, with music by Igor Stravinsky conducted by Pierre Monteux, choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and design by Nicholas Roerich, is premièred by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris ; its modernism provokes one of the most famous classical music riots in history.

" Nicholas Roerich and his son George were waiting in the Cheka office to see Dzerzhinsky when they heard of Dzerzhinsky's death.

Many Democrats were uneasy with Wallace's New Age spiritual beliefs and by the fact that he had written coded letters discussing prominent politicians ( such as Roosevelt and Winston Churchill ) to his controversial Russian spiritual guru, Nicholas Roerich.

Nizhny Novgorod has a great and extraordinary art gallery with more than 12, 000 exhibits, an enormous collection of works by Russian artists such as Viktor Vasnetsov, Karl Briullov, Ivan Shishkin, Ivan Kramskoi, Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Isaak Iljitsch Lewitan, Vasily Surikov, Ivan Aivazovsky, there are also greater collections of works by Boris Kustodiev and Nicholas Roerich, not only Russian art is part of the exhibition it include also a vast accumulation of Western European art like works by David Teniers the Younger, Bernardo Bellotto, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Pieter de Grebber, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and lot more.

Symbolism in painting was even more widespread geographically than symbolism in poetry, affecting Mikhail Vrubel, Nicholas Roerich, Victor Borisov-Musatov, Martiros Saryan, Mikhail Nesterov, Leon Bakst, Elena Gorokhova in Russia, as well as Frida Kahlo in Mexico, Elihu Vedder, Remedios Varo, Morris Graves and David Chetlahe Paladin in the United States.

* Nicholas Roerich ( 1874 – 1947 )

Most of its immigrant population is now gone ; however, St. Sergius Chapel, designed by Nicholas Roerich and built in 1932-1933, remains.

Svetoslav Nikolaevich Roerich () ( October 23, 1904, Saint Petersburg – January 30, 1993, Bangalore ), Russian painter, son of Nicholas Roerich, studied from a young age under his father's tutelage.

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Nicholas Roerich, ( October 9, 1874 – December 13, 1947 ) also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh ( alternative transliteration ) (), was a Russian painter and philosopher.

The Roerichs founded several institutions during these years: Cor Ardens and Corona Mundi, both of which were meant to unite artists around the globe in the cause of civic activism ; the Master Institute of United Arts, an art school with an exceptionally versatile curriculum, and the eventual home of the first Nicholas Roerich Museum ; and an American Agni Yoga Society.

In 1929 Nicholas Roerich was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the University of Paris.

Lovecraft referred to the " strange and disturbing paintings of Nicholas Roerich " in his Antarctic horror story At the Mountains of Madness.

Today, the Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York City is a major center for Roerich's artistic work.

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Russian painter and philosopher Nicholas Roerich ( 1874 – 1947 ) initiated the modern movement for the defense of cultural objects, for the idea of “ Peace of Civilizations ”.

Nicholas Roerich was born on October 9, 1874, in St. Petersburg.

Nicholas Roerich died of a cardiac

In 1915, Roerich wrote a report for Russian Emperor Nicholas I and Great Prince Nicholas Nikolayevich containing an appeal to make real state measures for national protection of cultural values.

* June 2 – Nicholas P. Trist, secretary to Andrew Jackson ( d. 1874 )

Fabergé had four sons: Eugène ( 1874 – 1960 ), Agathon ( 1876 – 1951 ), Alexander ( 1877 – 1952 ) and Nicholas ( 1884 – 1939 ).

* Nicholas Roerich ( 1874 – 1947 )

From 1872 to 1874, Kuropatkin studied at the Nicholas General Staff Academy, after which he was dispatched as a military attaché to Berlin and Paris, completing his military studies, and with the French troops in Algiers, accompanying French expedition to Sahara.

Another son, Nicholas Fish II, was a U. S. diplomat, who was appointed second secretary of legation at Berlin in 1871, became secretary in 1874, and was chargé d ' affaires at Berne in 1877 – 1881, and minister to Belgium in 1882 – 1886, after which he engaged in banking in New York City.

He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).

He worked for the California Geological Survey ( 1860 – 1874 ) with Josiah Dwight Whitney, William Henry Brewer and Henry Nicholas Bolander.

As well as the parish church of St Nicholas, which burnt down in March 2008, the village also has a second church built in 1874, the Radford Semele Baptist Church.

Nicholas Philip Trist ( June 2, 1800-February 11, 1874 ) was an American diplomat.

Magazines that merged with St. Nicholas were Our Young Folks and The Children's Hour in 1874, The Schoolday Magazine and The Little Corporal in 1875, and Wide Awake in 1893.

William Fayal Clarke was twenty years old when, in 1874, he joined the staff of St. Nicholas.

In 1928 George F. Thompson, the former editor of Our Young Folks ( a magazine taken over by St. Nicholas in 1874 ) became editor.

* 1971 – Nicholas Brendon, American actor

* 1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.

* 1911 – Nicholas Ray, American director and scenarist ( d. 1979 )

* 1948 – Nicholas A. Peppas, Greek chemist and biologist

* 1862 – Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher, diplomat, and educator, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1947 )

* 1980 – Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor

* 1980 – Nicholas D ' Agosto, American actor

* Henry Nicholas Paint ( 1830 – 1921 ), member of Parliament, merchant, landowner

* Alexandra Feodorovna ( Alix of Hesse ) ( 1872 – 1918 ), wife of Nicholas II of Russia

* 1724 – Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.

Conrad von Gesner ( 1516 – 1565 ) and Nicholas Culpeper ( 1616 – 1654 ) also published herbals covering the medicinal uses of plants.

Bishop Wigers ( 1138 – 60 ) was the first of a series of bishops of the Premonstratensian Order, which chose the occupants of the see until 1447 ; in that year a bull of Nicholas V gave the right of nomination to the elector of Brandenburg, with whom the bishops stood in a close feudal relation.

Finally, Nicholas III ( pope 1277 – 1280 ) adopted this version both for the curia and for the basilicas of Rome, and thus made its position secure.

** Nicholas I ( 1470 – 1473 )

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* 1911 – Nicholas P. Dallis, American psychiatrist and comic strip writer ( d. 1991 )

* 1929 – Nicholas Courtney, English actor ( d. 2011 )

* 1960 – Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle, British drummer ( Hanoi Rocks ) ( d. 1984 )

* 1945 – Nicholas Meyer, American author

* 1825 – Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg.

* 1769 – Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier ( b. 1685 )

* 1974 – Nicholas McCarthy, English guitarist ( Franz Ferdinand )