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Who was Roerich's mother?

  • A Russian woman

  • A German aristocrat

  • An English novelist

  • A Swedish poet

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Roerich's mother was a Russian woman named Helena Ivanovna Shaposhnikova. She was born in 1864 in Yaroslavl, Russia, and died in 1938 in India. She was a painter and writer, and was also a member of Theosophical Society. She and Roerich had three children together: George, Helena, and Svetoslav.
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