17 Facts About Richard Rudzitis

Richard Rudzitis was a Latvian and Soviet poet, writer, translator and philosopher.

Richard Rudzitis was chairman of the Latvian Roerich Cultural Relations Association from 1936 to 1940.

Richard Rudzitis was born on February 19,1898, in the village of Melluzi, in a peasant family.

Richard Rudzitis taught himself to read, and loved books all his life.

Richard Rudzitis graduated from the local gymnasium, continued his studies at the University of Tartu at the Department of Philology.

Richard Rudzitis was able to hide and preserve the manuscripts and documents of the Latvian Roerich Society in time.

Richard Rudzitis served his term in the strictest Komi regime camps, where he continued to write poetry, articles and other works with a chemical pencil on rags, stitching them into a pea coat.

Richard Rudzitis returned from the camps at the end of 1954 as a complete invalid, occasionally earning money from translations of scientific texts and literary works.

Richard Rudzitis wrote a book about Nicholas Roerich entitled "Cosmic strings in the works of Nicholas Roerich".

Richard Rudzitis died in the midst of his work; his heart grieved the bitter news of the sudden death of George de Roerich.

Richard Rudzitis was buried at the Forest Cemetery in Riga, Latvia.

Richard Rudzitis composed songs, and they were translated into foreign languages.

All in all, Richard Rudzitis published 15 articles on Tagore, translations of 133 of his poems, five dramas and several philosophical works.

Richard Rudzitis translated the Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, Vivekananda, Saadi, Rumi and European poets.

Richard Rudzitis wrote articles about Greek culture, India, Mahatma Gandhi, and about the Indian scholar Jagadish Bose.

Richard Rudzitis found what he had been looking for, for many years.

Richard Rudzitis was the head, editor, proofreader, and often translator of this publishing house.