We travel deep into Siberia this week, for our final installment in our three-part series on isolation. Under religious persecution, from the Communist Party in Russia, the Lykov family, from a sect of what was called the Old Believers, decided to renounce traditional society. They fled threats of death and destruction, deep, deep into the remote Siberian wilderness – the taiga – where they lived as a family of six, unseen or interrupted by the outside world, for 42 years.
In 1978 they were discovered by geologists, prospecting the Siberian wilderness, and were told of all the things they’d missed since they’d been gone. The Lykov family later came to be known as “the hermits who missed World War II” having been so removed from the world, they had no idea it had happened. Not the space race. Not television. Nothing.
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