Arkady Rovner (1940 - 2019)
Arkady Rovner was born in 1940 in Odessa, USSR and spent his youth in Tbilisi, Georgia. He studied at Moscow State University and Columbia University, New York. He taught numerous courses on world religions and contemporary mysticism at the New York University, the State University of New York, the New School for Social Research and the Moscow State Humanitarian University.
In 2001 Arkady Rovner became a founder and curator of the Institute for Cultivation of Inner States (ICIS), Moscow, Russia that set for itself an objective to contribute in a systematic way to the preservation and elaboration of Gurdjieff’s teaching.
Arkady Rovner is the author of seventeen books of poetry, prose and nonfiction, among them The Third Culture (1998), The School of Inner States (1999), Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (2001, 2006), and others. He is an editor and an author of two Encyclopedias Mystics of the XX century and Encyclopedia of Symbols, Signs and Emblems as well as the editor of a series of works by the early Christian writers such as Origen, Clement of Alexandria, Nemesius of Emesa, Ambrosius of Mediolan and others.
