George de Roerich

Russian tibetologist.

Born August 16th, 1902 in Okulovka (town), Novgorod Oblast. [ref]

Died May 21st, 1960 at 57 years old in Moscow. [ref]

Occupations
dialectologist, explorer, translator, university teacher
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. Rabindranath Tagore