On October, 29th, 2010 in the Library of History and Culture of St.Petersburg (72 Marata St., St.Petersburg, RF) there was a meeting of the Lecture Centre of the SPBranch of the ICR. E.A.Tomsha, Chairman of the SPBranch of the ICR made a lecture about the Roerich Pact: “St.Petersburg Origins of the Roerich Pact”. The idea of protecting cultural heritage was initiated by Nicholas Roerich in the end of XIX century; E.A.Tomsha described how the idea developed before 1917. The speech was followed with a video-presentation which showed photo documents of the ICR archives and other sources.
The meeting finished with showing of Valeriy Shatin’s film about the Roerich Pact -“Time to Gather Stones”.

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