Many artists and writers have sensed impending catastrophe, and their work reflected the growing sense of alarm. Paintings of Nicholas Roerich 1912-1913 period reflect the apprehension of the artist and the alarming state of Russian society on the eve of the First World War and the Revolution. Ideas of the Apocalypse have been distributed in the Russian literature of the century. Like his contemporaries, Nikolai Roerich envisioned social upheavals. In the years immediately preceding the First World War, Roerich had a premonition of impending disaster, and his paintings symbolically expressed horrific scale of the conflict, which he knew was approaching the world. In these works Roerich first acts as a "prophet."
1. Fairest degrees - the enemies of anger, 1912
2. Herald, 1914
3. Grad doomed, 1914
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