The book “The Master,” which opens the trilogy “The Great Journey,” is an engaging and thrilling account of the life and work of N.K. Roerich, from his beginnings as a painter to the realization of countless aspirations aimed at serving humankind. The book is written in a wonderful imaginative language. It tells about many pages of the life path of an amazing person who gave his descendants a world of Beauty, about his broad cultural and educational activities, the famous Roerich Pact, the Central Asian expedition.
* The author of the book is Lyudmila Vasilievna Shaposhnikova (1926–2015)—an outstanding scholar in Oriental studies, historian, philosopher, writer, public figure, an academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and the K. E. Tsiolkovsky Russian Academy of Cosmonautics, an Honored Worker of Arts of the Russian Federation, an Honorary Doctor of the St. Clement of Ohrid University, and of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University; general director of the N.K. Roerich public museum in Moscow; the world’s largest researcher of the life and work of the Roerich family.