Posted on 05/31/2020 7:55:34 AM PDT by marshmallow
Kemerovo, May 27, Interfax - Hermit Agafya Lykova, who has been living isolated in the Sayan Taiga, Siberia, since the 1940-s, does not know much about the situation with COVID-19, but prays for those who fell ill, press service of the Khakassky national park responded to Interfax inquiry.
An assistant has been living together with the 76-year-old hermit during the recent years, such a decision was taken by the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church. Last time, Lykova was visited on May 25, when food and medicines were delivered to her.
Lykova is the only alive representative of the retreated old-rite family found by Soviet geologists in 1978 in Western Sayan.
There were five of them: father Karp Iosifovich, his two sons and two daughters - one of them was 34-year-old Agafya. They lived in taiga for a long time trying to run away from the influence of the outside world. Three children died one by one in 1981, their father died in 1988.
According to the geologists, who found the Old-Rite believers, they almost felt themselves in the 19th century: all members of the family were dressed in the home made cloths, wore birch bark shoes, lived by natural economy: they went hunting and fishing.
Fascinating story.
She.....
I didn’t even know she was back in the taiga:
“In January 2016, it was reported that Lykova was airlifted to a hospital due to leg pain.[10] Agafia was treated at a hospital in Tashtagol, and planned to return to the wilderness once emergency services were able to airlift her home.[11] According to the questionable source The Siberian Times she did and as of mid-2019 she was still living there.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agafia_Lykova
Lol. Holes in the story.
The children were taken by their father to live in isolation, and Agafya, the last survivor, has maintained the only life she knew.
Since she was so independent for so long, you would THINK that she could adjust to the "new" immediately.
I think that we're missing some of the story. We ONLY get to read what the media decide what we deserve to read.
Nothing more; nothing less.
Was she isolated for the ENTIRE time? NO one EVER saw her or talked to her? NEVER? Hmmmm.
She does make for an interesting story. Too bad so much is left out.
Good point.
They avoided having to live in the Soviet state for 40 years, which was certainly a positive.Their kids were not raised to be communists and they lived free in the wilderness.
Yes, there must have been some compensations, especially considering the alternative!
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