Vladimir Anatolyevich Shibaev ( November 27, 1898 , Riga , Russian Empire - March 6, 1975 , Cardiff , Wales ) - entrepreneur , publisher , teacher . A long-term employee of N. K. Roerich , the author of a number of works of Roerich subjects. Founder of the Latvian Roerich Society.
| Vladimir Anatolyevich Shibaev | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | November 27, 1898 |
| Place of Birth | Riga , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | March 6, 1975 (aged 76) |
| Place of death | Cardiff , Wales , UK |
| A country | |
| Occupation | teacher , publisher , employee N.K. Roerich |
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Biography
Born in the family of a Riga businessman. He studied at Riga, then at the St. Petersburg Commercial College of Peter the Great. He studied at the Polytechnic Institute. After the revolution, he worked in a publishing house in London , where in 1919 he met with N. K. Roerich [1] .
He returned to Riga in 1921 . In 1923 he founded the trade and transport office "World Service". From October 1928 to November 1939 - Secretary of N. K. Roerich , Head of the Chancellery and Secretary of the Himalayan Research Institute “Urusvati” in the Kullu Valley ( India ) [2] . Member of the Organizing Committee of the III International Conference of the Roerich Pact and the Banner of Peace [3] , one of the editors of Flamma magazine.
Since 1939 he lived in Delhi , got married, edited the magazine "San". During the Second World War, he published the Newsletter on the Soviet Union. In 1946, he began to work as the head of the Russian language department at the University of Delhi [4] . In the 1950s, he edited the university editions of Bulletin of the Russian Translation Service [5] .
In the summer of 1959 he moved to England, taught Russian courses at Cardiff University .
He corresponded with researchers of the work of N. K. Roerich in the Soviet Union . At the request of the Roerich biographer P.F. Belikov, he wrote “From the Eyewitnesses” [6] .
Died March 6, 1975 at Cardiff Hospital.
Brief Bibliography
- Shibayev VA Roerich Peace Movement // Banner of Peace: Repr. from the Special Peace Section of "The Scholar Annual", 1933. - P. 7–10.
- Shibayev VA The Roerich Pact and Banner of Peace // 1935. Reprinted from "The New Dawn". N 8.
- Shibayev VA Supplement (Roerich Pact signet by United States and all Latin American Governments) // Lahore. 1935
- Shibayev VA The Roerich Pact and Banner of Peace. Aims and history. // Lion Press, Lahore. 1935
- Shibaev V.A. Roerich Pact on the preservation of the cultural values of mankind: A brief historical outline (inaccessible link) // NK Roerich: Collection. - Riga, 1935. - S. 57–74.
- Shibaev V. A. From the recollections of an eyewitness // The Roerich Power. - M.: Fine Arts, 1993. - S. 333—343.
- Shibaev V.A. From eyewitness memoirs // Roerichs. Milestones of the Spiritual Path. — M.: Sphere, 2001. — S. 525-545.
Literature
- Sahni K. Teaching Russian in India // Moscow - Delhi . Digest of articles. - M .: Progress, 1979.
- Chelyshev E.P. Do not fade its colors // Science in the USSR. - 1986. - No. 2 (32).
- Rosov V.A. Nicholas Roerich: Bulletin of Zvenigorod. Expeditions of N. K. Roerich on the outskirts of the Gobi desert. Book 1: The Great Plan. - St. Petersburg: Aletheia; M .: Ariavarta Press, 2002.
Notes
- ↑ Rosov V.A. Nicholas Roerich: Bulletin of Zvenigorod. Expeditions of N. K. Roerich on the outskirts of the Gobi desert. Book 1: The Great Plan.— SPb: Aletheia; M .: Ariavarta Press, 2002.- S. 68.
- There is an unconfirmed documented version of V. A. Shibaev as an agent of the Soviet special services. See, for example:
- Shishkin O. The Battle of the Himalayas. NKVD: Magic and espionage. - M., 1999.
- There is an unconfirmed documented version of V. A. Shibaev as an agent of the Soviet special services. See, for example:
- ↑
- Annenko A.N. Vladimir Shibaev, Secretary of Nicholas Roerich // N.K. Roerich. "Go for it!". Letters to V. A. Shibaev and N. V. Kordashevsky. - Abakan: Khakass Book Publishing House, 2012. - P. 140-153
- Shibaev V. A. From the recollections of an eyewitness // The Roerich Power. - M.: Fine Arts, 1993. - S. 333—343.
- ↑ Shibaev V.A. The Roerich Pact and Banner of Peace. Aims and history .. - Lahore: Lion Press, 1935.
- ↑ One of the first graduates of these courses, Professor C. N. Chakravarti recalled: “... None of the Indians knew Russian then, so all the teachers were only Russian. The first head of the Russian language department was V. A. Shibaev. ” See: Sahni K. Teaching the Russian language in India // Moscow-Delhi. Collection of articles. - M. Progress, 1979. - S. 268
- ↑ Chelyshev E.P. Do not tarnish his colors // Science in the USSR.— 1986.— No. 2 (32) .— P.84.
Academician E.P. Chelyshev noted there: "In March 1955, I was lucky enough to meet and talk with this respected person - one of the founders of Indian Russian studies." - ↑ Shibaev V. From the recollections of an eyewitness // The Roerich Power. - M.: Fine Arts, 1993.— S. 333—343
Links
- “There is a lot of work ahead in Russia.” Letters from N. K. Roerich to V. A. Shibaev (1922-1924) / Ariavarta Herald (Editor-in-Chief V. A. Rosov). - Moscow-New York, 2002. - No. 1 (2). - S. 49-63.
- Annenko A. Vladimir Shibaev, Roerich’s secretary // Edge of the era. - 2008. - No. 35.
- Roerich N. K. "Dare!". Letters to V. A. Shibaev and N. V. Kordashevsky. - Abakan: Khakass Book Publishing House, 2012.
- Roerich and employees (Roerich & friends) .