Chapter 10, Professor Skridlov Summary and Analysis

When Gurdjieff meets Yuri Lubovedsky in Egypt, he works as a guide for Professor Skridlov. After the first journey taken with Lubovedsky, Gurdjieff ends up in Thebes, where he again meets Skridlov. They decide to excavate a tomb together, during which time they become good friends. They decide to take a long journey together to the source of the Nile, on into Abyssinia (modern Ethiopia), through Syria, and then to the ruins of Babylon.

Through the years they take other expeditions together, sometimes bumping into each other by accident. One of these accidental encounters is while on a train in Russia. Skridlov is going to the resort city of Pyiatigorsk to see his youngest daughter. Gurdjieff and Skridlov decide to meet at a predetermined place and enter the city of Bukhara, a center of Islam and Iranian...