Another book by a direct pupil of Gurdjieff. Tscheslaw was a Polish soldier in the Russian Imperial Army. After their defeat by the Red Army, Tscheslaw joined Gurdijeff's Moscow and St. Petersburg groups who were slowly migrating south towards Turkey, through the Russian Caucasus. Tscheslaw was with Gudjieff in Constantinople and gives us first had accounts of Gurdjieff's time there and how he fed the Russian emigres and encouraged them (pushed them) into starting their own viable businesses.
The author was on his own for moving to Germany and had a bad situation in Hungary where the Ukrainian consul betrayed him and tried to exchange him as a deserter for Ukrainian hostages in the Red Army. After a short stay in Germany, the author joins Gurdjieff in France, The Priuere castle and property near Fontainbleu and describes all the events there through its existence, including Gurdjieff's car accident, and how the weasel who helped them settle in France was instrumental in them losing Le Prieure with the human weasel appropriating most of the money from the purchase.
The author also describes the work while Gurdjieff lived in an apartment in Paris, although he didn't accompany him on his trips to America. The book is a rare jewel of first hand accounts of Gurdjieff and the life he led.
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