OUSPENSKY FIRST MET GURDJIEFF IN MOSCOW in 1915. He recruited students for the St. Petersburg group and was a close student during Gurdjieff's Russian period. He left Gurdjieff a number of times before finally breaking away in 1924. A detailed chronicle of Gurdjieff's relationship with Ouspensky—including the never-before-known "St. Petersburg Conditions," the reason for Ouspensky's leaving which Ouspensky deleted from his book In Search of the Miraculous—is given in Struggle of the Magicians. Also, see the video Gurdjieff's Mission.