title: Guide and Index to Gurdjieff's All and Everything: Beezlebub's Tales To His Grandson
author: Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
description: Guide and Index to Gurdjieff's All and Everything: Beezlebub's Tales To His Grandson [hardcover] Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Georges [Jun 01, 1979]
zlib_text: George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
  (1877–1949)
  by P. L. Travers
  GEORGE IVANOVITCH GURDJIEFF (1877–1949). These brackets enclose seventy-two years of a life 
  that, in spite of all that has been written about it, is incapable of exact documentation. It is a fact that 
  Gurdjieff died in 1949, but since he gave his age differently at different times, the date of birth given here 
  can only be approximate. This was all part of his enigma, of the sense he gave of deliberately playing a role, 
  or, as P.
      D.
      Ouspensky
   
    wrote, after their first meeting, of being a man “poorly disguised.” His whole life, for 
  the biographers, has the air of an authentic myth, in the sense of something heroic and significant but not to 
  be apprehended except in so far as he could, by these very disguises, mediate it to the general 
  understanding.
  Born in Alexandropol, near the Persian frontier of Russia, of a Greek father and an Armenian mother and 
  later tutored by the Dean of the Military Cathedral at Kars, h