Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born January 13, 1866 in Alexandropol, then part of the Russian empire known as the Transcaucasus. After reaching the age of responsible adulthood, he formed a small group who called themselves the "Seekers After Truth," and traveled throughout Central Asia, Egypt, India, Tibet and Rome, finally returning to Russia in 1912, when he began teaching the metaphysical "system" of personal development he learned while abroad, and which he called Esoteric Christianity. He brought this system to Europe and the United States. Some of his famous pupils included P.D. Ouspensky and Frank Lloyd Wright. Gurdjieff transitioned to another dimension on October 29, 1949.