About the book: 2017 / Russian philosopher, writer and mystic, researcher of human possibilities, Peter Uspensky witnessed the formation of the school of the famous mystic, a legendary man, one of the most mysterious figures of the early twentieth century. What knowledge did this mysterious “dance teacher,” as he called himself, want to convey to his students? What actually happened to his students and why did communities of the most prominent people of that time form around Gurdjieff? What exactly made people recklessly obey this mysterious man? The secrets and possibilities of human nature hidden in every person, which this man demonstrated, amazed the imagination. On the threshold of the monstrous upheavals that the twentieth century brought to people, a new understanding of the world and man in it was revived.