Intro
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Languages, Names, and Dates
Abbreviations and Foreign Terms
Code Words and Spiritual Names Used by Roerich's "Inner Circle"
Introduction: The Artist Who Would Be King?
1. Childhood and Youth, 1874-1893
2. Academy Days, 1893-1897
3. Journeyman Years, 1897-1902
4. The Architecture of Heaven, 1903-1906
5. The Nightingale of Olden Times, 1907-1909
First gallery of images
6. The Great Sacrifice, 1910-1913
7. The Doomed City, 1913-1918
8. The Exile, 1918-1920
9. The Watchtowers of America, 1920-1923

10. The Messenger, 1923-1925
Second gallery of images
11. Searching for Shambhala, 1925-1928
12. The Silver Valley, 1928-1930
13. The Banner of Peace, 1931-1934
14. The Black Years, 1934-1936
15. Readjustment and Resignation, 1936-1939
16. Into the Twilight, 1939-1947
Third gallery of images
Epilogue: Contested Legacies
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index