The Russian philosopher, writer and mystic, researcher of human capabilities, Pyotr Uspensky witnessed the formation of the school of the famous mystic, a man of legend, one of the most mysterious figures of the early twentieth century.What knowledge did he want to convey to his students this mysterious "dance teacher," as he called himself? What actually happened to his students and why did communities form around Gurdjieff from the most prominent people of that time? 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 verge of monstrous upheavals that brought people in the twentieth century, a new understanding of the world and man in it was reborn.