Museum-Institute of the Roerich Family

The Museum-Institute of the Roerich family in St. Petersburg was created according to the project of St. Petersburg State University and registered as a non-profit cultural institution on May 11, 2001. The founder is the International Charitable Foundation "Roerich Heritage". Founder - Lyudmila Stepanovna Mitusova (1910-2004), niece of E.I. Roerich. She preserved and transferred to the Museum a significant part of the memorial heritage of N.K. Roerich and his family from the Roerichs’ apartment on Moika, 83 as part of the Memorial Collection of her father S.S. Mitusov, a cousin of H.I. Roerich, a close friend and employee of N.K. Roerich at the Drawing School of the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of Arts.