Agafya Karpovna Lykova: the latest news about the Siberian hermit

Surely many have heard about who Agafya Karpovna Lykova is. The domestic press repeatedly wrote that in the Russian outback in harsh taiga conditions a hermit lives who ignores all the achievements of civilization and prefers to live according to the laws of the Old Believers. Agafya Karpovna Lykova - the last who survived from an ancient family, who for many decades does not recognize the worldly vanity and does not want to return to the society. At the same time, the hermit's ancestors and family never adhered to the views of religious radicalism, confessing moderate Old Believer norms, unlike those who completely renounced all earthly things.

Family History

It should be noted that journalists did not always write the truth about the Lykovs, sometimes inventing all kinds of fables about these recluses. For example, they were "dark" people in the sense that they absolutely did not know the letters. However, the wife of Agafya Karpovna's father taught all the offspring to write and read the Psalter. And Karp Iosifovich himself, after launching the first satellite of the Earth in the second half of the 50s of the last century, suddenly declared that "the stars began to walk very fast in the sky".

Sharks of the pen were wrong and when they accused the Lykovs that they were real fanatics of their religious beliefs, and tried in every way to convert others into their faith. In fact, even family members were not even good at thinking about people.

Even in the first half of the 20s of the last century, the authorities destroyed the settlement of the Old Believers, some of whom were forced to go to live in the foothills.

In 1937 the Lykovs decided to leave the community and settle separately from their companions in a secluded place. In the mid-40s a family of hermits accidentally discovered a patrol, and Karp Iosifovich with his wife and children again went to look for a quiet and secluded place to live. And found, only since then his family did not have any contact with the outside world. The Lykovs were fed by what gave them land, forest and water. The family clearly adhered to the rules, which forbade all to communicate with representatives of modern civilization. However, living in the wilderness, the Lykovs did not lose track of time and conducted religious rituals.

The last of the family of hermits

Agafya Karpovna Lykova - the only representative of the family of Old Believers. Parents, two brothers and a sister have long since died.

According to the official version of the doctors, the cause of the death of Lykov's relatives was the deficit of the immune system that resulted from the isolation of the family from the outside world. Unfortunately, contact with representatives of the new civilization was ruinous for the Old Believers: their organisms could not cope with modern diseases, against which mankind had long ago found an antidote.

The log house of the tree in which the hermit lives, is in the Republic of Khakassia, which is surrounded by mountain massifs. Since 1988, Agafya Karpovna Lykova lives in complete solitude, since she buried her own father. She did not have a family life.

Natural economy

An elderly woman independently runs a farm, is engaged in truck farming, but every year the cultivation of the land takes more and more forces. She has chickens and goats. Loneliness to the old woman is brightened up by a dog and cats. Lykova Agafia Karpovna piously honors family traditions and does not forget about gathering and fishing. She regularly tries to bring hay, fruits, vegetables and cereals. And even rescuers provide firewood with firewood. At the same time, Agafya Karpovna Lykova, whose views favor only a reclusive way of life, does not disdain to use devices from the outside world.

Among them, for example, a watch and a thermometer, about the existence of which until recently, she had no idea. It is noteworthy that, taking presents and useful things from geologists and rescuers, an elderly woman imposes a strict taboo on objects marked with a computer barcode, classifying them as devil attributes.

Once she wrote a letter asking him to send her a man for help with housework. And that was found. A young man named Alexander, who lives in the Tomsk region, responded and came to the taiga. However, for a long time to be in an environment where there is no civilization, the young man failed: he received a summons from the military registration and enlistment office, and he was forced to go to the army.

Seven kilometers from the hut of Agafia Karpovna, the former geologist Erofei Sedov, who knows the hermit well, lives, but because of her health, she can not meet with her often.

Care of the monastery

In the early 90's Agafya Karpovna Lykova, whose biography is familiar to a large number of Russians, decided to change her destiny.

The hermit went to live in the Old Believers' nunnery and even experienced the procedure of tonsure. But a few months later, after telling the sisters that she was sick, she went back home. In fact, Agafya Karpovna Lykova, whose seclusion is the only form of being, left the monastery for religious reasons. The grandmother prays daily, that the Almighty sends her health and longevity. And she has already overcome the eighth decade, and the strength to manage the household is no longer what it used to be. Today, it is strong only in spirit and willpower.

Phenomenon

As already emphasized, Agafya Karpovna Lykova became famous due to numerous notes in newspapers and magazines. Many still do not understand how an elderly woman can live in the harsh conditions of the taiga, practically without using the benefits of civilization. It was written about it as a real phenomenon. In the early 80's she seriously became interested in the employee of Komsomolskaya Pravda and writer Vasily Peskov.

He often visited the father of Agafia Karpovna and interviewed him. The result of these frequent and long trips was a book called "Taiga Deadlock". In it, the author gave a detailed account of the living conditions of hermits and their religious beliefs.

Several years ago, Agafya Karpovna Lykova, whose photo appeared regularly in the Soviet press, received a calendar and religious books addressed to her by the Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia (among the Old Believers), Cornelius, and later the lord himself visited the famous hermit .

How now she lives?

And what is known today about an elderly woman, who is called Agafya Karpovna Lykova? The latest news indicates that the hermit does not have everything safely with health. What is happening to her?

Old disease

Several years ago, the hermit was diagnosed with breast cancer. The hermit in every possible way resisted surgical intervention, stating that this is a sinful act.

And after a while everyone was pleasantly surprised when the malignant tumor disappeared by itself. The fact is that Agafya Karpovna was treated with folk medicine, taking phytopreparations, about the amazing properties of which she is well aware.

Now Siberian doctors are not inclined to dramatize the situation, arguing that for her years the hermit has very good health.

Help arrived in time

Most recently, a woman reported that she began to worry about terrible pain in her leg. She used the phone that was left for force majeure, and asked for help. At the request responded himself the head of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev, who sent a helicopter for a hermit. With her, she took only spring water and icons. Agafya Karpovna was brought to the regional hospital in Tashtagol. As it turned out, the hermit had a disease such as lumbar osteochondrosis for a long time. Specialists provided her with medical care, having carried out a comprehensive examination of the body, and the hermit quickly recovered. Everyone wished that Agafya Karpovna, Lykov, stayed for a long time in the medical institution of Lykov, 2016 for which it was difficult.

Lying on a hospital bed, the hermit did not for a moment forget about her pets: dogs, cats and goats. Especially strongly she was worried about artiodactyls, because they show excessive obstinacy, not allowing anyone but the hostess to admit to themselves. To look after the woman's economy at the time of her absence, one novice novice and a local huntsman volunteered.

At present, Agafya Karpovna Lykova (hermit) feels well and has already returned to her beloved pets. Before that, she had not forgotten to meet with relatives who wished the woman good health.

Conclusion

It should be noted that the case of the Lykov family does not belong to the category of extraordinary. About Agafia Karpovna and her close relatives of the public became known only because the Old Believers themselves went on contact with representatives of the outside world, who, in turn, told about the so-called phenomenon to journalists. In the Siberian taiga there is a huge number of Old Believers, whose lives take place in monasteries and monasteries. And we can not at all doubt that the death of an industrial civilization will not be perceived by them as an apocalypse.