Подпись и дата слева внизу: монограмма / 1925

"The King of Ladakh arrived. So, we will stay in his castle. From this place of the teachings of Issa, from high terraces, I should write a series of everything that can be seen from there. On high sites, cleaned by winds, there were signs of great communications. Of course, these sites have changed: destruction and creation replaced each other. The conquerors added new piles, but the main silhouette remained intact. Heavenly edging crowns the Earth as before, the same sparkling stars and waves of sand, like a frozen sea. And the deafening wind, taking you off the ground... I do not want to give any ethnographic or geographical character to the local images. Let them go like symbols: "Shrines and Fortresses". Let their common tone of heroism and feat told us about this country".

N. Roerich. Altai – Himalayas.