Although Siberia has long been used to exile prisoners, the exile area is also 250 kilometers away from here. There are bears, wolves and no food in this deep forest, and it is extremely cold all day, so it is impossible for human beings to survive.
Maybe it's just an abandoned house Curious geologists asked the pilot to pull the helicopter closer. One of them, Galina, was surprised to find that there was a small clean window next to the dilapidated wooden house.
In snowy Siberia, if it is a house that has been abandoned for a long time, the windows can't be so clean. It is really inhabited here.
Later, they met the owner of this wooden house, Agafia Likova, who is the most lonely woman in the world. From Stalin's time to 2020, I lived alone in the isolated wasteland for more than half a century.
She doesn't know about World War II, the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Now, at the age of 76, she certainly didn't know that the COVID-19 epidemic broke out all over the world.
Away from civilization, science and technology, people and everything, Agafia's life is a legend about will, survival desire and spiritual strength.
Everyone who has settled in Siberia has some stories behind them, and those who choose to live in the wilderness of Siberia will not have no reason.
Agafia Likova is the last survivor of the Likov family.
The Likov family was one of the few families who believed in the old ethics at that time. The old etiquette school is actually a branch of the Orthodox Church, but it has a strong conflict with the Orthodox Church that most Russians believe in.
The early Greek Orthodox Church was introduced into Russia and gained many followers. However, during the period of Peter the Great, in order to quickly russize the empire, the Tsar ordered many rules in the Greek Orthodox Church to be improved and become the Russian Orthodox Church today.
However, many former believers refused to change, so they were called the old etiquette school and regarded as the heresy of the Orthodox Church. They have been persecuted for hundreds of years, and most of them have fled to foreign countries or remote areas such as rural areas along the Volga River, Siberia and border cities.
Agafia's parents lived in the countryside of Perm Krai, and they believed in the ancient etiquette school after the missionaries who fled here. But even in such a remote area, they will still be hunted. (1974, the old etiquette school was restored to legality)
1936, Agafia's father Karp witnessed his younger brother being shot by patrol soldiers. In order to avoid the follow-up pursuit, he immediately fled his hometown with his wife and two children.
In order to survive, my father took his family all the way to the east, running all the way, despite the endless Tai Jialin and the mountains nearly 2000 meters above sea level. By the time they feel safe, they are already on the wasteland 250 kilometers away from human settlements, and the indoor temperature is only MINUS 45 degrees in winter.
When they left home in a hurry, the family took only a few clothes, an old Bible, a simple loom, two iron pots, some tools, flint, needle and thread and a handful of seeds. The food taken away is also limited. No matter how hard life is, at least there is peace here and there is no need to escape.
The Karp family stayed in the wilderness and lived a primitive life in the wild. Saw trees from logging, built their own wooden houses, cut wood to make a fire, and never contacted the outside world again. Their home is a one-room hut with no furniture but a window and a fire pit.
After four years of isolation, Karp and his wife have two more children. The youngest child is Agafia. Agafia was born in a washbasin made of hollow pine in 1944.
Agafia saw the first side of the world, that is, endless forests and dilapidated huts in the forests. The only person she can communicate with is her family, and the only way to understand the world is the past dictated by her father and the stories in the Bible at home.
Unlike her parents, she must accept the primitive way of life from birth. This is not a wild survival reality show. It only takes a day or two to get back to normal life. The wasteland in extremely cold regions is hell for human beings, but Agafia and his family have regarded it as their new home all their lives.
In recent years, all the locals who have been to Agafya are in her hut.
It is under such extreme conditions that human wisdom, perseverance and humanity are even greater. The food was quickly eaten up, and the family could only eat leather shoes to satisfy their hunger in the most difficult time. Parents who have been doing farm work all their lives have learned to hunt with weapons and taught their children skills.
The clothes brought from my hometown were tattered and patched many times. Leather shoes were eaten, cloth shoes were broken into pieces, and they learned to make shoes out of birch bark. They opened a small vegetable garden on the wasteland and planted potatoes, carrots and rye in it. As we all know, a few crops can survive in Siberia.
At other times, we have to rely on natural gifts, such as picking pine nuts, wild mushrooms and wild berries.
For Agafya and his family, life here is the same and hard every day, but 196 1 year is particularly hard. Summer in Siberia is very short, and it was still snowing heavily until June of that year. All the crops in the garden are dead, and nothing grows on the thick snowdrift, so it is difficult to find even the traces of animals.
Agafya and her family finally survived by eating leftover potatoes, roots, bark and leaves. Agafia's mother doesn't want her children to starve. She refused to eat, leaving a small harvest to her four children and eventually starved to death that year.
Life in the hinterland of Siberia is short in summer and long in winter, with bears, wolves and wild cats, dense but gloomy pine trees, rugged mountains, sculptural snowflakes, uninhabited lakes and nameless streams.
And of course, endless loneliness. Agafia and his family lost almost all contact with the outside world except occasionally seeing lost hunters or prospectors.
However, it was a day in 1978, and the closed life was briefly broken. Geologists' helicopters found them this year.
But when they first met Agafa Ya, they found that Russian in Agafa Ya's mouth was slow and vague, and they mistakenly thought that Agafa Ya was mentally retarded.
But later, scholars saw Agafaya and her brothers and sisters skillfully hunting, cooking and sewing clothes. You can also tell them family stories. Geologists understand that they are not mentally retarded, but have left human society for too long and their language ability has declined. Source: British newspaper sister?