A personal comment: Dushka was an extraordinary person, and like her father, G I Gurdjieff, left all that met her with lasting impressions. The last two weeks before her death scores of friends and acquaintances world wide called and visited her at Mt Sinai and many went on to Calvary Hospital in the Bronx to visit her one last time. She loved calls and visits, and they contributed much to her remaining days in her earthly body.

Dushka was not well for many years. The month after the above photo was taken she fell, breaking her hip, and would be bedridden for her remaining days. Friends helping, Dushka dedicated these past two years to the final editing, publication, sales, and fulfillment-distribution of her book - a twenty year effort, finally finished this year.

I, along with hundreds of others, will miss her. We are greatly enhanced for having known her and participating in her book completion and related projects within the G-H-S. As her website's webmaster and friend, I felt honored to know her and to contribute in some manner to Dushka as she did to my own life. Now she is liberated from the surly bonds of earth and lives on in our hearts, as she continues in her Work. Well done Dushka ~
"Bravo Sophia!"     SEF 3-28-10