Boris Abramov is a poet, writer, artist and teacher. The diary entries of the closest pupil and follower of Nicholas Roerich and Helena I. Roerich were included in the book series "The Facets of Agni Yoga".
Boris Nikolayevich ended up in China after the October events. He was in charge of the students' club, worked in a chemical laboratory, taught Russian. An all-round educated person knew literature well, was versed in painting and music. He painted beautifully, wrote stories and poems.
Study time
The biography of the future writer began in 1897. He was born on August 2 in Nizhny Novgorod. In a military family, Boris was the youngest child. The elder brother Nikolai was born a year earlier.
From August 1906, the boy studied at the noble institute of Emperor Alexander II, one of the best educational institutions in the city. In addition to the compulsory disciplines, schoolchildren were taught gymnastics, dance and music. In 1915 Boris graduated from the course with a silver medal.
The graduate decided to receive further education at the Imperial University of Moscow. He chose the Faculty of Law. After the first year, the student was drafted to the front. He served in the preparatory first battalion in his hometown. On November 9, 1916, Boris was enrolled in the Warrant Officer School in Oranienbaum.
In early 1917 he became a combat non-commissioned officer. In February, Abramov became a midshipman and went to the Abo-Aland fortification as a senior officer. From the spring of 1918, he commanded a separate artillery battalion of the Primorsky Fleet. Since the garrison did not take part in the hostilities, most of it was evacuated to the mainland by the beginning of 1918.
In April, the officer left military service and returned to his studies. But the civil war prevented him from continuing his studies. In the summer of 1918, Boris Nikolaevich returned to military service. The troops were constantly reformed. Abramov told about this in his biography. From September 1, 1918 to March 1, 1919, he served in the ground forces. Until June 1, he remained a junior officer of a floating battery. With a division of naval riflemen, the officer was sent to Barnaul.
Finding a destination
After the Ice Passage at the end of 1929, with the retreating troops, Abramov ended up in China.
For two years, he worked as a laboratory assistant at a plant in Harbin. Until November 1, 1931 he worked in the laboratory. The scientific article of his authorship "Determination of the moisture content of beans" was published in the collection "Simplified methods for the study of beans and some products of their processing" in 1928.
The writer settled his personal life in January 1929. He and Nina Shakhrai became husband and wife. In 1934, in Harbin, an acquaintance with N. K. Roerich. He became a spiritual mentor for Abramov, passed on the Ring of Discipleship to the follower of the Living Ethics teaching. When Roerich left for India, Boris Nikolaevich corresponded with him.
From February 1940 to 1946, the writer served as a secretary at the college, until March 1949 he was a laboratory assistant in a chemical laboratory. For a decade, Abramov worked at the Harbin Polytechnic Institute, took part in the compilation of Russian language textbooks for students.
The questions of the meaning of life and the search for his place in it occupied Boris Nikolaevich from his youth. The basis of Abramov's creativity was the philosophy of Roerich. In the forties, the records sent to Helena Roerich were published under the title "The Facets of Agni Yoga".
Agni Yoga Teaching
Since 1934, the Russian Committee of the Roerich Pact for the Protection of Cultural Property operated in Harbin. Boris Nikolaevich also entered it. According to the organization, culture consisted of art, science and religion. On the advice of the Roerichs, the Abramovs returned home in 1959. They settled in the town of Venev. Many times he was visited by disciples in need of spiritual communication from other cities of the country.
In the life of Boris Nikolaevich, everything went according to the system he had defined. He believed that there was no place for accidents in being. The philosopher loved nature, spent all his free time away from the city. He called man and nature a unity that determines the movement of evolution.
Abramov's notes reveal new facets of Agni Yoga. The works contribute to a better understanding of the Living Ethics of Wisdom set forth in the books. Abramov's work is a poeticized teaching of the Roerichs in colors and sounds. Boris Nikolaevich played the piano and sang beautifully. He wrote stories, poems, composed music, and painted.
All facets of creativity
The legacy left by him became known relatively recently. The watercolors were found in 1997. The paintings were distinguished by a unique style. The drawings are surprisingly subtle and seem to be permeated with light. In terms of symbolism, they resemble the works of Roerich.
The first poetry collection of the poet "Silver Thread" was published on the eve of the writer's centenary. The main theme of the works was earthly life, the path to the Upper world and the Supermundane being. According to the author, the main striving is the path to the Beauty of the Higher Worlds.
In 2007, the manuscripts of Abramov's vocal works based on his own poems were discovered. The compositions were first performed on May 4, 2007 at the Novosibirsk Roerich Museum. The intricate miniatures, painted professionally, are conceived for vocal performance. They were highly appreciated by connoisseurs of beauty.
The main work of Abramov was moral and philosophical notes on the development of the themes of the Teaching of Living Ethics, reflecting the practical path of self-improvement. The author began compiling them in 1940 and continued until the last days of his life.
Boris Nikolaevich died in 1972, on September 5.
