Crossword-Solution: ROERICH 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Then in 1934, Nicholas Roerich, head of the American-Roerich expedition into Tibet, had a remarkable experience that bears on the saucer riddle.

Watching it through binoculars, Roerich saw it was oval-shaped, obviously of huge size, and reflecting the sun’s rays like brightly polished metal.

The scenery and the costumes, designed by Bakst, Roerich, Benois, and Larionow, and the music of Rimsky-Korsakow, Tcherepnine, Schumann, Borodine, Balakirew, and Strawinsky--especially Strawinsky--arrived.

She sent a desperate appeal to Nathan with her eyes as though Nathan should speak up and put the Cynthia person in her place with, “No thank you, Madame; my wife has absolutely no interest in Roerich—or any one or anything else but her husband.” But Nathan did nothing or the sort.

Something about the scene reminded me of the strange and disturbing Asian paintings of Nicholas Roerich, and of the still stranger and more disturbing descriptions of the evilly fabled plateau of Leng which occur in the dreaded _Necronomicon_ of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred.