Offspring
Gurdjieff had seven known illegitimate children:
- Cynthie Sophia "Dushka" Howarth (1924-2010); her mother was dancer Jessmin Howarth. She went on to found the Gurdjieff Heritage Foundation.
- Sergei Chaverdian; his mother was Lily Galumnian Chaverdian.
- Andrei, born to a mother known only as Georgii.
- Eve Taylor (born 1928); the mother was one of his followers, American socialite Edith Annesley Taylor.
- Nikolai Stjernvall (1919-2010), whose mother was Elizaveta Grigorievna, wife of Leonid Robertovich de Stjernvall.
- Michel de Salzmann (1923-2001), whose mother was Jeanne Allemand de Salzmann; he later became head of the Gurdjieff Foundation.
- Svetlana Hinzenberg, daughter of Olga Ivanovna Hinzenberg and a future stepdaughter of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
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