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Agafia the “Old Believers” documentary. Hermit Surviving in Russian Wilderness for 70 years.
In the mid-17th century, the leader of Russia’s Orthodox Church, Patriarch Nikon, introduced radical reforms in Russia. Many couldn’t accept the changes and became known as “Old Believers”. To avoid religious persecution first from the Orthodox Church and then from the Soviets, families fled to some of the most remote corners of the world. In 1978, one such family was discovered by a group of geologists in the remote Russian Republic of Khakassia, Siberia. The Lykovs looked as if they belonged to a previous century: they dressed in homespun clothes and used primitive instruments in their everyday life. They were completely self-sufficient and still highly religious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFK3DJ7Kn6s&list=PLlz0hU0PfoKCDQCs8ryMPzOxyMHFHWaPe