This one is incredible.
We all imagine what it would be like to be secluded from the rest of the world, thousands of miles away from civilization. Sometimes, we long for it - but none of us would ever dare to make it a reality.
Today's Daily Quota is a recent piece from The Smithsonian on a family who have done just that in the harshness of the Siberian wilderness - for 40 years.
In fact, they weren't even aware that WW2 had occurred.
Karp Lykov, his wife and their four children had lived in a one-bedroom, hand-made shack in the Siberian wilderness for 40 years before being discovered by a group of Russian geologists looking for oil.
Lykov and his wife had fled the oppressive Stalinist regime in 1936 after his brother was shot whilst labouring under harsh conditions. They took with them their two young children and fled to the secluded, and almost uninhabitable Siberia.
Here they had had two more children, all of which had learnt to read and write with a single Russian Orthodox bible. The latter two children had not seen a single human being, outside of their direct family, for all their lives. In fact, they had never tasted bread until the geologists had found them many years later (the Serbian climate and terrain does not allow for wheat or grain to grow).
Read about their fascinating lifestyle via the article below. Their story is amazing - self-subsistence, chronic famine, a traditional lifestyle and extreme seclusion. Awe-inspiring, I very much recommend the read.
A documentary was also made about the Lykovs; Part 1 of the 3-part series can be found on YouTube here or via the article below.
READ IT HERE
We all imagine what it would be like to be secluded from the rest of the world, thousands of miles away from civilization. Sometimes, we long for it - but none of us would ever dare to make it a reality.
Today's Daily Quota is a recent piece from The Smithsonian on a family who have done just that in the harshness of the Siberian wilderness - for 40 years.
In fact, they weren't even aware that WW2 had occurred.
Karp Lykov, his wife and their four children had lived in a one-bedroom, hand-made shack in the Siberian wilderness for 40 years before being discovered by a group of Russian geologists looking for oil.Lykov and his wife had fled the oppressive Stalinist regime in 1936 after his brother was shot whilst labouring under harsh conditions. They took with them their two young children and fled to the secluded, and almost uninhabitable Siberia.
Here they had had two more children, all of which had learnt to read and write with a single Russian Orthodox bible. The latter two children had not seen a single human being, outside of their direct family, for all their lives. In fact, they had never tasted bread until the geologists had found them many years later (the Serbian climate and terrain does not allow for wheat or grain to grow).
Read about their fascinating lifestyle via the article below. Their story is amazing - self-subsistence, chronic famine, a traditional lifestyle and extreme seclusion. Awe-inspiring, I very much recommend the read.
A documentary was also made about the Lykovs; Part 1 of the 3-part series can be found on YouTube here or via the article below.
READ IT HERE
No comments:
Post a Comment