Larch is tolerable, Birch is decent. This story is the most Russian thing I’ve ever read.

[…] years in the far reaches of Siberia, a story hard to believe, but apparently true […], […] Survivalism, Russian style.

He was running to save his life and his families life. Incredible story, what a way to live. Looking around in the dim light, the visitors saw that it consisted of a single room. Imagine going through puberty never ever having seen a girl (or boy) before. They were not fucking around.

We often don’t really appreciate how big Russia is–half the surface area of the moon, much of it nearly as empty. So basically this family were quite happy and content with their lives then the outside world show up and half of them die! I know Yorkshire is hardly comparable to Siberia, but still.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Hauxwell. I understand why they left for seclusion but for them to force their children to live like that, I don’t know. While this case of isolation is extreme, I’m sure if you looked at how the rest of the old believers lived, it’s not that big of a jump. if the whole community is dead, there’s no one to care for little kid if you died and they’d suffer worse than a quick death. No nice food, hot water, warm beds. The old man’s name was Karp Lykov, and he was an Old Believer–a member of a fundamentalist Russian Orthodox sect, worshiping in a style unchanged since the 17th century. Quite the story, people living in another dimension. Perhaps “bare earth”? […], […] This Russian family lived in such a remote area that they didn’t hear about World War II until 1978. the story is true.I read it back in those early 1980 ties, when I lived in Soviet Union.The son who hunted for meat,was that fast he chased animals and outran them and killed!Those “civilized” brought them the disease,they had no immunity against. Wearing a patched and repatched shirt made of sacking. We live on a creek and have access to plentiful firewood. (Notably, there are old believers who remained part of mainstream society who do not necessarily believe the same things) They have been predicting the end of the world continuously for hundreds of years stemming from the destruction of what they consider to the be true Orthodox Church. Yerefoi, who we met in the essay, decided to leave his job with the geologists and apply for a hunting licence, which took him out into the forest in the same area on a regular basis. He lived 60 years in the woods of Gully Lake (about 120 KM north west of Halifax) until his death in 2003.
For 40 years, this Russian family was cut off from all human contact #longreads […], […] Unbelievable. In the event of some sort of massive plague or war that killed off most of the human population and destroyed modern infrastructure, this is more or less what we’d be reduced to; running around the forest in birch bark shoes, our pots and pans eventually giving out, eventually running out of ammunition for our guns (hard to imagine in this country, I know), our remaining books rotting, our language reduced to a series of coos and grunts. In some ways the exaggerated pretensions of the state–whether Tsarist, Communist or Putinist–have been meant to counter the terrifying possibility that the whole people might just vanish into endless forest and steppe unless they were subject to very severe prohibition and penalties. This is a very interesting article. Before 1936 they lived in a populated part of Russia but after Lykov’s brother was shot by a Soviet patrol, Lykov gathered his family and fled into the vast Siberian taiga. You can read about it on wikipedia by seraching: “Old Believers”. You can only fly there by helicopter. Thank you for sharing it. Karp Lykov, along with his wife and children, lived in a wooden hut just a few miles from the border with Mongolia. Marshall, along with the director of photography, Sarah Cunningham, and Ukrainian-born assistant director, Elena Andreicheva, raised more than £14,000 in a crowdfunding campaign to get the project off the ground and received funding from Creative Europe. And since seventeenth century monarchs were as vain as humankind gets, Alexei didn’t like that all that much. Old Believers, Religious Dissent and Gender in Russia, 1760-1850. […] Until this family was discovered in 1979, they lived without any human contact for over 40 years. this is one of my all time favorites. The baffled helicopter crew made several passes before reluctantly concluding that this was evidence of human habitation—a garden that, from the size and shape of the clearing, must have been there for a long time. Amazing tale, beautiful writing […]. It makes me sad to think that religious perecution and dictatorial social edicts forced this family into the wilderness in order to truly live freely. By that time they were no longer a 24/7 project and we were able to sell them as yearlings so I didn’t have to castrate them myself (phew) there you go, another wierd farm tale. Their only reading matter was prayer books and an ancient family Bible.


They began to get hungry again: Both knew in their hearts that the first to fall asleep would be killed by the other. The geologists tried on several occasions to convince Karp and his daughter Agafia to move in with relatives in a village 150 miles away. As a boy there was a common game that friends would play, which was — if Newton were to come back today, what technology would he be most shocked about.

As the Soviet geologists got to know the Lykov family, they realized that they had underestimated their abilities and their intelligence. But if you put most Americans in that environment, they’d be crazy within the month if they lived that long. I would say preserved from the horror that Russia endured. By 1961, the kids were adults and stood some shot at survival. The highlands of PNG was only discovered in the 1930’s. It is quite different sounding, however, regionally, Russian is bound to sound differently as well. “They were free. I love hearing stories like this, and it just makes me smile. They actually seem to have been very faithful. They were fainter than the brightest stars but still distinctly visible with a few crawling across the sky at a given time. fascinating! A truly sad story.” –Yes how irrational it was for those Christians to not stand still and make it easier for Stalin’s thugs to kill them. They have a gem like this every couple of years, Well I guess the only front they ever knew was the cold front. I was totally shocked by this, i thought I had screwed up and raised them wrong, but the 4H club had some pamphlets that explained everything in a perfectly enlightened way. If it hadn’t been for a window the size of my backpack pocket, it would have been hard to believe that people lived there. Dmitry would’ve been an interesting guy to meet. Agafia buried him on the mountain slopes with the help of the geologists, then turned and headed back to her home. I found it quite sad the surviving daughter was left alone after everyone else had passed on, and yet she still wanted to stay. Damn right you are […], It’s way too early for me to read stuff like this. I wonder though, what the point is of struggling to survive all those years? This is seriously the most fascinating story I’ve read in a while. Or a picture of one. Shudder. Agafia was left alone for only a while. Hypwe. Wow.

This story will be proved fake. Something to consider is that with a short growth season, a bitterly cold off season, there just might not have been that much large protein on offer. Sad commentary on humankind, the most fearsome animal out there. This gives amazingly strong social coherence to such groups; but it’s also the basis of some unpleasant forms of discrimination; after all, the medieval (and much later) Christian view of Jews as Christ-killers is based upon just such identification, and we know where that could lead; or at very least we know how that could contribute to nasty people such as Hitler practicing genocide. 40 years of NO human contact and a family living in isolation. Every fiber of my being tells me this is truth without compromise and does not answer to anyone. […], […] A great story I couldn’t stop reading: For 40 years, this Russian family was cut off from all human contact […], […] Read this. But they did it. Clothes were patched and repatched until they fell apart, then replaced with hemp cloth grown from seed. I wonder what the language of the daughters really sounded like.

Never saw white men before. Whom ever mentioned incest, was utterly disgusting, the article did point out that the two kids were born in the forest before the MOM died. which is impressive. “We are not allowed that,” he whispered just before he died. You've got to get the true facts. Kept me super engaged the whole time. Anybody know the exact location where they lived? Hats off to you, Mike. Now I want to find the house on Google Earth. The most interesting piece that I found on the list is this article by Mike Dash […]. Why? Some people blamed Peskov for the Lykovs' deaths due to the shock of having contact with the outside world.


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