Spoke in their language: a family who lived in the forest, 33 years did not know about World War II (photo)

Thousands of kilometers of thick pine forest, broken with gear mountains, where winter snows lie from September to May. Therefore, in 1978, when a group of Soviet geologists who were engaged in the search for minerals, they noticed from the helicopter a sign of human life, they did not believe. But when they turned back, it became clear that here, in a place that was never explored, near the river without a name, there was a lawn in the forest, which seemed to grow, it seems like crops.

Geologist Galina Pisames recalls the moment of acquaintance with the person who lived there. "He looked frightened and was very attentive. There was something to say, and I began," I congratulate you, grandfather! We came to visit! ". The old man did not answer right away, but in the end we heard a soft, uncertain voice that invited us to enter," she said.

It turned out that a man lived with his family, only five people, in a small, smoked shed, pledged with birch containers with sliced ​​dried potatoes. The head of the family, Karp Likov, spoke Russian and said that he came from the sect of the fundamentalists-old-breaker, who have long been persecuted by the king and then the Communists. One day in 1936, a communist patrol appeared in their deaf village and shot his brother Karp as they worked together in the field.

The frightened man took his family and fled to the forest. Family - his wife Akulin, son Savin 9 years old and daughter Natalia 2 years old - took the seeds and for the next years went deep to the forest until she was in the same place that geologists noticed from the air. Two younger children, Dmitry and Agafia, were born in Hlushin in 1940 and 1943, never saw people who did not belong to their family and speak their strange language.

The only literature for reading was prayer books and the ancient family Bible. The difficulties of their lives were incredible: the shoes of the family made from the bark of trees, clothing pledged with hemp cloth grown from seed, and lived almost starving. They did not know about the Second World War or the fact that a person landed on the moon, although Karp guessed the satellites, seeing "fast moving stars. " Akulin died of famine in 1961, when the late snow destroyed the whole harvest.

The rest of the family members escaped when one grain of rye sprouted on their pea beds - they carefully guarded the plant until they were able to harvest 18 grains from it, which allowed them to gradually restore the crop. In 1981, three of the four children died. Neither Carp nor daughter Agafia wanted to leave her remote home, despite the proposals to reunite with the former village. The man died there in 1988. Agafia remained alone, saying that the Lord will suit everything.