The painting “Build Rooks”, written in 1903, is part of the series “Beginning of Russia. Slavs”. In these works, Roerich showed a new, formerly little known to him world of Ancient Russia, revealed in a vivid figurative form his understanding of the ancient era.
In this picture it is unnecessary to search for the utmost accuracy in the transmission of one or another fact of history. The artist has created a poetic, fanned by epic spirit plot, which gives the most general picture of the era. Workers, warriors, their life is full of boiling energy, they decide their own fate, bravely build waterways, build rooks and sail from “Varyag to Greeks” …
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