This is currently the most objective and complete biography of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, an outstanding Russian philosopher and scholar of religions. The book gathers a large amount of biographical information, facts concerning the development of the Theosophical Society, as well as materials about the influence of Helena Petrovna’s teachings and the activities of the Theosophical Society on world culture. It will be especially interesting for readers to learn how highly Helena Petrovna was valued by such world-famous figures as Mahatma Gandhi, who met her personally; the 14th Dalai Lama, William Butler Yeats, a Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, whose “Secret Doctrine” was always on his desk; Albert Einstein; Thomas Edison; Nikolai and Elena Roerich; George Russell; Vasily Kandinsky; Jack London, and many others.