1923 Ferdynand (Fernand) Ossendowski publishes "Men, Beasts and Gods" in London. Variously described as a Polish engineer or a Russian writer, Ossendowski traveled through Siberia and Mongolia after the Russian Revolution and wrote of local Buddhist beliefs in the subterranean kingdom of Agartha (Agarthi) where the King of the World was said to reign. The names Agartha and Schamballah become known in western Europe for the first time. (Men, Beasts and Gods, Roots)