How I lived in the forest. Escape from the big city: why successful people live in the forest

Fate played a cruel joke on him. He lost everything, but retained the will to live. His name is Viktor Borisov and he lives in the forest. On top of that, he also makes his website with mobile phone. About how this one lives amazing person blogger Torpedonov told us.

This material, in addition to being able to check for simple human feelings and compassion for others is also extremely useful for all those who are interested in issues of autonomous survival in the wild. (editor's note)

Most of the materials for the house were presented to Victor good person, pensioner Yuri from the nearest village. He helps Victor despite the stiff resistance of Yuri's own family.

Outdoor stove used for cooking. The main dangers in such a life are inadequate hunters with weapons, representatives of the authorities, as well as a huge elk, which often comes to the door of the house and breathes languidly.

Viktor Borisov in front of his home

Another photo of the house, next to the entrance.

Inside, Victor is cramped, but there is order and even some comfort. In his house there is a small bed, a table, a homemade stove, and a homemade manual power plant.

In this way, Victor produces electricity to charge his mobile phone. A part of the bicycle, a battery and some other auxiliary devices are used.

Technique on the verge of fantasy close-up.

Mugs and other utensils are perfectly clean. Compare with your office cup or imagine the state of the dishes of the average guest worker.

With the help of this phone, Victor's website was made.

The main thing that supports life in the house is a homemade stove.

Original lamp. If you turn it 180 degrees, you can see that it was previously used on the roof of a taxi car.

Victor earns a living through odd jobs, as well as with the help of this document.

In general, Victor gives the impression of a very integral person, one can feel the solidity and creative energy radiated by him. For all the time of communication, he did not say a single, not only obscene, but simply not a single rude word. Winter is coming, and life in such conditions will be hard to the extreme. Victor's dream is to buy some kind of chainsaw, as firewood is constantly needed in winter.

If you ask any down-to-earth layman - an avid city dweller, he will answer that there is no need to go to the taiga. And it will be right only, but only in 50% of cases. More precisely, I don’t have any specific statistics at all, but I can only say that far from all cases, a person’s desire to go into the taiga is simply an attempt to escape from his problems, to escape “from himself”. There are other cases when you can answer like this: "Yes, you need to go to the taiga and live there in the bosom of nature!" In this article, I want to analyze these cases with you, analyze all the pros and cons, and come to some conclusion in my reasoning. After that, you, the reader, will be able to make a choice for yourself whether you should leave for the taiga or not.

All options will go in ascending order, from the worst to the best. Perhaps I will reveal a secret to many.

In what cases is a person mistaken, and should he not go to the taiga at all?

1) Youthful maximalism

An extremely popular case. When young people, who are often not even 16 years old, "firmly decide for themselves" that they urgently need to go to live in the taiga (or on a desert island). Such a decision is tantamount to teenage suicide and akin to it. Teenage suicides come from an overabundance of feelings and the play of hormones in the body, which control the will. Those. it is not a person who decides that he needs to leave, but hormones push him to this, just as they lead him to despair, in which he decides to commit suicide. In both cases, this is not at all what a person needs, and he should simply endure hormonal surges, a similar mood and depression, otherwise leaving for the taiga can end fatally for him. History already knows such cases. (google: "hermit Igor Grudnitsov"). In short, no, guys, you don’t need to ruin yourself in a fit of these feelings, I am against it and with my whole project I urge you not to do this and ... well, read other articles, you will understand everything there!

2) Separation from parents

Most often, such bold, striking statements are made by people between the ages of 16 and 25, i.e. still young people in the prime of their hormonal development. When a young man (or a girl, which is not uncommon) embarks on the path of growing up, completes daytime forms educational institutions, and takes the first step towards independence. As a rule, this person still continues to live with his parents, as he does not have his own living space. If before he did not experience any special problems, he completely and completely obeyed the will of his "parents", but now all this parental control is no longer appropriate.

One way or another, the parents begin to annoy this person. They constantly give their advice, climb "under the skin", ask what they are not supposed to know at all, still look at him as if small child, but they begin to demand already "in an adult way." And simple, polite "rejections" stop working. Accumulating a large load, all this negativity begins to put pressure on a person and settles in him like a dead sediment.

In this case, it doesn’t matter what type of personality and character he has - thoughts about going to live in the taiga under such conditions may arise in different people. Be it introverts or extroverts, lyricists or logicians, techies and humanists.

When all these requirements coincide, then a person has a thought: "But shouldn't I go somewhere?" And it doesn’t matter whether you go to the taiga or live on an island. Anywhere, just to hit the road as soon as possible from this arbitrariness.

Such people begin to study relevant forums and sites (like this one), look for materials on how to make their move, what to do, look for the experience of those who have already moved, etc. Further, if there is enough vital energy, then the person takes real actions: preparing for the move, collecting taiga equipment, accumulating finances. Someone dreams of moving to a remote taiga, and someone likes a sparsely populated village, others are considering tropical islands.

Further, in most cases, all attempts to move end in failure due to great infantilism and lack of life experience. The more a person advances along the path of preparation, the more difficulties he has. As a result, a person simply comes to the thought: "But shouldn't I just rent an apartment or a room and live separately?" A person gets a job, rents an apartment, lives for a while, then girls appear, relationships with friends are renewed, and again he becomes a full-fledged member of society, and not a complete sociophobe. It turns out that all his problems lay in the fact that he continued live with parents who did not give him freedom and prevented him from living. Psychologists call this problem separation, that is, the need to separate and move away from their parents somewhere. Therefore, leaving for the taiga was only a rush of feelings that took possession of a person - and this is not at all what he wanted from his life, naively believing that in a remote taiga or on a desert island he would not have any problems and worries and would live like in a fairy tale, like in paradise...

3) Inclination of personality and weakness of character

The desire arises in introverts, introverted people, in people who, in principle, are not used to large and noisy companies, partying with drunken screams all over the street, etc. In short, people who are prone to solitude and who cannot be accepted by society. These people are passive, weak-willed. In life, they are rarely able to complete some difficult task to the end, they leave it, going into confusion and depression, as if their hands are growing from the wrong place, and they supposedly can’t do anything. In fact, they simply do not have the patience to complete complex cases to the end.

Not ready to cope with various duties, not wanting to compete in the "human pack", they dream of leaving everything and going somewhere, "far, far away" and without looking back ... There are some rudiments of these traits in all people without exception, who want to go into the wilderness, some have more, some have less.

As a result, the problem is also solved by separation: moving to a village, an island, or somewhere else. The thing is that our human society, like any other flock of animals, is built on the principle of "survival of the fittest" and "if you want to live, know how to spin!" As in the wild world of animals, our life does not tolerate weaknesses, and only the strongest survive. In order to get a livelihood, you have to compete for them, fight, go to any difficulties, be in an unpleasant environment, but with a guaranteed piece of bread. If you want to continue your lineage and have children, you must compete for a female, try to provide for her and children.

In short, many, many problems and worries from which the head swells. And all these tasks frighten such a person - a weak person. Not for the sake of philosophy, but solely for the sake of his weakness, he takes flight from his problems, leaves society and no longer even remembers the creation of a family and children. At the same time, he tries to find some justification for his actions. Often he really leaves, lives alone and enjoys life, but he loses in the struggle for survival... In almost 100% of cases, such boys were raised by their mothers, i.e. without any pronounced paternal upbringing. They do not have before them male examples for imitation and copying. Their, like a male, body with all the primary and secondary sexual characteristics that are due is not loaded with "male software" due to the fact that the mother (or grandmother) raised it, but with "female software", and they respond to all problems and difficulties. will also be, based on the programs that their mother laid in them.

As a result, such people, even having moved, do not find happiness for themselves, because problems overtake a person throughout his life. Then such a man begins to regret his deed, that he did not start a family and did not give a damn about it. That he could, but did not take his chance. When the "mid-life crisis" comes or a little later, he looks back, looks at his former friends and acquaintances, at classmates. Everyone is already some kind of bigwig, and only he is practically a bum ... Without a family, without children, without material property, and most importantly, without spiritual growth and spiritual achievement, since initially the motives for his seclusion were completely different (escape from society , from problems, from difficulties) ... He understands that he has lived all this time in vain.

He lived simply by trying to satisfy his natural needs: to get food, to keep warm, and so on. And he understands that his existence is worthless and insignificant - then thoughts of suicide come to him. Yes, he saved his nerves by living in a quiet, relaxed place. Loved nature. He preserved his health by not sniffing the exhaust gases of cars, but he lost his life completely and nothing can be returned ... Longing and sadness come to such a person every day, in turn, in the end he finds solace only in a bottle. Hopelessness and lack of meaning. Sadness and only dullness. "But I could have done it in a completely different way," is the most popular thought in his head...

When should a person really go to the taiga?

4) Under the "old shop"

Who is already over 50-60, adult children, wife, or already tired, a viper, or a clever beauty and leaves with him, completely shares his views, supporting her man in all his endeavors. And children live their own lives, raise grandchildren.
Often such men have such thoughts, they already have a lot of life experience, they have seen everything, they can afford a good financial basis, or some kind of passive income (for example, from renting an apartment in the city). Or they can simply organize some small business right there. Or even, perhaps, ready to live on what is. They are drawn to nature.

They climb into the taiga wilderness, get jobs as foresters, rangers, simply buy houses in the villages or build a chain of small houses in the taiga - winter quarters, and are engaged in the extraction of furs.

When their main male function is already fulfilled, they move and live happily, in harmony with nature. They do not look back, with sad eyes, saying: “But I could!”, - but they look at the past with a smile and pleasantly recall their not lost youth.

In this case, leaving for the taiga, and even to hell in the middle of nowhere, will be conscious and will not bring any negative consequences. This is the most best option leaving in the wilderness, moving out of the city.

5) Young family

But, again, not in the remote taiga, just by building a hut in the middle of the forest, but in a residential village. Many do just that, this option is called downshifting. When you are still not many years old, but there is a loving and understanding wife / bride, who, like you, wants to live in nature. This the best way, because already from a young age you can begin to build your life in a new role. To raise children not in dirty cities, on "shop poison", but on healthy food grown on their own and purchased somewhere nearby (rural shops, I mean neighbors).

Mikhail Sheiman, a 41-year-old Israeli citizen, lives in the Karelian forest.

— Mikhail, why do you live in the forest?

And I don't like the city. I used to work as an economist in Israel and made good money. But the city atmosphere puts pressure on me, the city pumps out energy and money. Calls from all sides: earn and spend! I don't want to dedicate my life to making money. I feel bad in the city. And my children start crying there for no apparent reason.

- But the northern Russian forest is somehow too much ... Really there were no other options?

I have been looking for alternatives for a long time. He lived in a kibbutz in Israel, then in communes in France and Italy, in a Buddhist community in England and at temples in Thailand. But I realized that I had to look for myself in my homeland. And 12 years after emigrating, he returned to Russia. At first I thought about settling in a village or an eco-settlement, but I have a difficult character: I don’t want to adapt to other people’s rules. I want to live as I see fit, and not as expected.

- What is the philosophy of going into the forest?

The forest feeds and protects. I wanted to create ideal conditions for self-development. Find yourself, find God, be free. I am the "squatter" of this forest, and I don't even know who owns it. This whole sale and purchase of land is pure fraud. I believe that the land belongs to the people, and people can choose their own place of residence. Here is what I chose.

- How did you manage to build a house where there is not even a road?

I was looking for free place in wild nature to occupy it and fundamentally not to formalize the rights to this place. I found a piece of forest on the Karelian Isthmus, away from villages and roads. And he built a log cabin on the river bank without the help of technology. We built together with my wife, and preschool children helped. Instead of a foundation - a stone rock. He sawed logs for the log house himself, and carried boards, furniture, etc. on an inflatable boat along the river ...

- And how do you live here?

You don’t have electricity in principle - only flashlights on batteries. In summer it is already light, but in winter we burn candles, cook food on the stove or on a fire, take water from the river. Products or our forest products - mushrooms, berries, nettles - or we go to the nearest village ten kilometers away. IN free time, and we have a lot of it, we read books. Sometimes we choose to travel. Last year, the whole family hitchhiked to the Solovetsky Islands and Baikal.

- And what about the education of children, medical care, socialization, finally?

My wife and I teach our children ourselves. We have many books; there is a globe, an atlas of the world, encyclopedias, dictionaries... And they read. We don't go to doctors because we don't get sick. And there is enough socialization: sometimes friends will come, sometimes we travel ourselves.

- Where do you get money for such a life?

Various assumptions were made... From the tablet on the burial it becomes clear that a young man was buried - only 29 years old. The surname seems to betray his Georgian origin. Our guides, who had previously met the “forest man”, assured that the latter was “a person of Caucasian nationality”. Who could be the dead man? Son? Brother? Just a like-minded person who also chose the life of a hermit? Or maybe both came here to hide from the law? Refugees? The streams of thoughts did not subside in our heads until we met the ascetic himself. The truth is even more confusing.

Message from "illegals"

The hermit was discovered by the so-called "black diggers". They go to excavations, "armed" with metal detectors - they get scrap iron and antiques from the ground. Despite the semi-legal business, they agreed to take us to the place. “We worked without noticing anything around,” says Ivan. “Suddenly, we felt that there was someone nearby… We looked at the path—indeed, there was a person standing there. Overgrown, in a black shirt, stern look. "Do you live here?" we mumbled. And he answered - "Yes!" They hurried to reassure themselves that we were just working. And then for a long time we felt that he was relentlessly wandering after us and watching from behind the trees.

When you approach the parking lot, horror seizes. It seems that not one person lives here, but a whole community. Or, at least, groups of people often visit here. Not far from the hut itself is the “guest room”. A fallen tree was hewn, something like a bench came out of it. Opposite, a cross is drawn in chalk on the bark. Nearby, firewood was collected. It looks like someone is about to turn up.

In the camp itself, there are crosses everywhere. There are many similar benches, deck chairs made of wooden beams. And also - a homemade shower with a water tank, bags stuffed with something, smoked pans, a car mirror attached to a tree ... Not far from the fire pit there is a huge mound of gray powder. “Wan, is this concrete, or what? one of our guides called out to the other. It doesn't look like clay. And what a flat pyramid! Why did he just spread it ?!

The owner did not show up in the camp for a long time. “What if he has a gun?!” - these words, thrown by someone, made our expedition panic. Perhaps silent and unnoticed, the hermit is watching us. Who knows what's on his mind...

"We won't harm you!" - these appeals long time did not bring any result. The hut, where, apparently, the old man spends the night, was closed. Each of us kept trying to look inside the hut ... But every time they stopped each other. I didn’t want to disturb, anger the “forester” at all. After all, it is not clear what this could lead to ... They called, they said that they had come in peace. Then they decided to go to the grave, which the "black diggers" told about. Let's wait a while and we'll be back.

In the past - family, work, home

Half an hour later, the entrance to the hut was already open. Another moment - and from the thicket of the forest appeared an overgrown man. When he saw us, he barely slowed down. With caution, very hesitant, but still approached. It turned out - no aggression, on the contrary - embarrassment and some timidity in behavior.

Slavic type of face, speech without accent. Apparently, the "black diggers" made up the wrong opinion about a random counter. The "forester" Stepan Vasilyevich introduced himself to us. "Where is the grave? - he answered, perhaps, the most exciting question for us. – Ah... Yes.. Exactly, there is something like that. But this is just a monument, there is no burial inside. And I have nothing to do with him. There, apparently, a person died, relatives erected a monument.”

These words are somewhat reassuring. But Stepan Vasilyevich was very reluctant to make contact. It took some time to get him to talk. He kept looking around at our guides - he was clearly unpleasant that strangers were examining his "town".

In a private conversation with a hermit, it turned out to be easier to talk. As it turned out, he moved to live in the forest in 1996! Fortunately, the winters are warm now, it used to be harder. And now even a kerosene stove in a hut warms. Now Stepan Vasilyevich is 58 years old, in the past he lived in Ukraine, then moved to Kursk. At home he worked as a miner and machine operator, and here he retrained as a foundry worker. Lived in a hostel, had a family. What happened next is unclear. The room was not taken away, the family members are alive... He talks inconsistently about how he went into the forest. "Do you really not understand? I don’t fit this society, but it doesn’t fit me,” the hermit waves his hand vaguely towards the city.

Roommates - parrot and twins

Stepan Vasilievich does not even have a passport. He lives absolutely alone, occasionally meeting with mushroom pickers who wandered here. It is just right to assume that he eats what he gets in the forest. But it is not so. He goes 5 kilometers to Kursk, where he collects bottles and receives some money for them. Then - to the store. He buys vegetables for soup, bread ... Stepan Vasilyevich does not eat meat, and not for ideological reasons. “It is rare when I buy a cheap sausage of 200 grams,” he shares.

But when we give him money, something unimaginable begins. “What, you don’t understand anything? - the interlocutor looks around. “They are everywhere, they follow you and penetrate everywhere. It will only make things worse for you if I take your money.”

Stepan Vasilievich often talks about some kind of system that has subjugated everyone in our world. We do not have a family, but a cell, not a society, but a community ... Now is the time. And soon the end of the world will come - in just a few years.

In addition to the newspapers that he buys in the city, the hermit reads the Bible: "It says everything about what is happening." When asked why he did not go to the monastery, Stepan Vasilyevich replies that the time has not yet come. “I carry a cross on my shoulders, and it will be heavier than the one that hangs around someone’s neck,” he notes.

The pyramid in the middle of the camp is a mound of ash. This mini-model of the mountain, according to its owner, carries a special energy. After a pause, he adds that in a couple of years he will no longer be in the forest. Now his mission is “to build everything here so that people will come later,” and then there will be nothing to do in this place. Where to go, does not answer. Upon learning that we were leaving, Stepan Vasilyevich became more favorable to us. Finally, we talked about the figurines that decorate the parking lot. "This sea ​​siren, I made it from two parts, this is D'Artagnan's saddle, and this is Cheburashka, ”the hermit leads us along his alley. “Look, don’t you know what it is? - I shrug my shoulders in confusion, seeing something like a large slingshot. – How?! Siamese twins!" Having recovered a little from what I heard, I ask what kind of stick on the tree. “Parrot,” our hero gives out. And already more briskly embarks on a story about "Stirlitz" - another snag. “He still needs a cap ... So, maybe not very similar, but if you turn in an unlit room, we will see the shadow of his profile.”

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I envy this man, he lives in harmony with himself and nature.

thanks for good article. Soon many will go to the forest)
Look for me in Altai

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You can’t run away from yourself either into the forest, or into the mountains, or into the fields,
Not one or two ... about that we have been singing to you for a long time,
All of you will have to go out into the Light - to all those who honor God's covenant,
And who has been looking for him for a long time, We say only one word:
Look for the Light inside, outside, to stop you living in a dream,
You need to awaken your own role in the world to know yourself.
If you take a vow, you will feel the Covenant with your soul ...
There are few years left... seek the Light, find the Light!

to Naphai Torbu Rinpoche
Yes perishing less your have him problems. =) Is that the Bible ...

An article about Stepan Vasilyevich by different people with different levels consciousness causes various reactions, opinions. This hermit, secluded away from the crazy civilization (about which you can talk a lot of bad things, but many of you will not understand, and will criticize this information) has long understood and found his way. Now everything more people begin to realize themselves when there is very little time left, and I am one of them. But I am grateful that I learned what I know now, and I will use this knowledge as best I can, because there is very little time left, and I need to use it to the fullest. And the things around us really interfere with our development and awareness. For this we need solitude, away from the mortal world, and the best thing for this place - Saints Altai lands. Seclusion means complete seclusion, only one. But in my case, it's hard for me. It would be nice to have a friend, an assistant to mutually help each other as needed. Therefore, I am looking for like-minded people, all who retire in the Altai forest, please write to me by e-mail: [email protected]

I also plan to break out of the shackles of civilization - an evil machine.
There are good metas not far from Adler, in the south, including abandoned villages.
Like-minded people are welcome.
If you are a protector of nature and animals write: [email protected]

Lived in the forest for a couple of days. One is bored and scared. The habit is needed. But then, when you get used to nature, it pulls like a magnet, you feel that only there you are charged with the necessary energy for a whole working week.

this uncle is a little crazy. although I myself often think about leaving everything and walking into the forest.

I also think to live somewhere in silence, write the year of birth 1991

I've been living for a year now and I'm not happy with everything, there's a friend big dog, there is a power station laptop TV set is tired of stupid serials and house 2 even the old UAZ is once a month I go 50 miles for tea and cigarettes I have nothing to live and I don’t want to go to the apartment I’m interested in answering. corporal,

I also really want to live in the forest as a hermit write to me

Get out of the city! Away from politics, from the state, where they experiment on us like on white rats. Haven't you heard? Chipization is coming soon, motherfucker. Further, into the forest. I hate the state, but I love the country ...

hooray) I’ll make myself a gift for 14 years - my boyfriend and I will go to live in loess) I’ll finish school and that’s all - we’re leaving!

I also live in the forest, but I don't brag

Sincere article, it’s good even though the trees in the forest remained and you don’t need to pay taxes for
air! We don't live in the city. but we beat the thresholds with various documents from officials, we don’t know the laws, we fall into the traps of scammers, while breathing exhaust fumes and other smoke.
We cling to concrete walls We pay crazy money for it.

I'm from Canada, but I go to the woods.

Comrades, maybe someone knows what is happening with this uncle now? How did he not hear anyone?

I have long dreamed of becoming a hermit. I hate most people. All around are bandits. An Armenian organized crime group is taking my apartment away from me. You need to think about how you can get away from civilization somewhere far away. The only thing is health fails. Hopelessness.

tired favorite city food to live in the forest

with a girl, yes with food, yes, I’m happy to buy a fishing rod, a gun, etc., in advance of nature, I have to go to God before the end of the world comes

I have long wanted to go to the forest. I can no longer live in civilization among filthy money, corruption and sheer cattle. Only my wife and Small child who then will not forgive that I left and left them. And it would seem that I have everything that you can wish for a guy at 26 years old - beautiful Friendly family, a good promising job (I make good money), a car, my own housing, great true friends ... but still, I'm 90% ripe to leave. But this is a very serious act, and for starters, I decided to try to leave for a month .. Theoretically, it is possible with someone together, but no more .. who from St.

You need to gradually prepare, bring tools, build a home, and when you realize that you are ready, then take the last seeds with you, etc.
I have been preparing for two years now, there are no worries anymore, my own paradise is almost created. I have already tried to live as a hermit, at first it is difficult, then you settle down and get used to it. Then, as they say: no matter how much you feed the wolf, he still looks into the forest. I have solar panels and LED lighting there, the main thing is that there would be water, a garden

I would like to have my own untouched corner of nature. River, field, no people around
looking for a place

I often go hiking in the forest and mountains - I feel good there. With age, I’ll probably go there to live, I don’t want to be a slave in a stuffy city until old age.

Ideas about “returning to the roots”, about life in harmony with nature, have always excited the minds of people. They are popular even today, when civilization has spread to almost all corners of the earth and many are tired of it.

The Lykov family of Old Believers went to live in the forests of Khakassia in the 1930s. They lived away from civilization for over 40 years. The Lykovs built a wooden hut near a small mountain river. They obtained food by hunting (with the help of holes and other methods), caught fish, and also found mushrooms, nuts and other wild plants. In addition, the Lykovs had a household plot: they planted turnips, potatoes, peas, hemp, and so on. There was no salt in the diet.

Fire was produced with the help of flint and flint. Hermits sewed dresses from hemp using a loom that they made themselves.

The Lykov farm was discovered by geologists in the late 1970s. About these unusual people learned not only Soviet citizens but also the rest of the world. In the Soviet Union, a series of articles and even books were written about them.

In 1981, three people from the Lykov family - Dmitry, Savin and Natalia (they were the children of the founders of the Karp and Akulina Lykov family) - died of pneumonia at the age of 41 to 54 years. Doctors who examined the family believe that their bodies were not ready for viral infections from outside world. The guests, who came to study the family, infected them with bacteria, which turned out to be fatal for unprepared people.

As a result, only the youngest of the family, Agafya Lykova, born in 1945, survived. Since she is an Old Believer, the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church officially accepted her into its fold in 2011.

VICTOR ANTIPIN

Viktor Antipin (Martsinkevich) was born in Smolensk in the family of an official and a library worker. Victor got two higher education, one of which is geological. He dreamed of living in the taiga and gradually came to the conclusion that a person should return to the roots, live in wild environment, do not break away from nature.

In this regard, Viktor Martsinkevich went to Siberia, he traveled along the Lena River and in one of the villages stopped for the night with Anna Antipina. As a result, Victor stayed with Anna, and soon she became pregnant. Victor offered to go to the forest together to live away from civilization. At the same time, he took the surname of his wife, since his own surname indicated his non-Russian origin and was less suitable for the image of a real taiga dweller.

In 1983, they went into the taiga and moved away from civilization by about 200 kilometers. Two born children died due to lack of medicines. Later another child was born. The girl, who was born in 1986, suffered from malnutrition (the mother did not have milk due to hunger).

After some time, Victor, his wife and daughter went to the area of ​​the Biryusa River, where there were more opportunities for food. Victor decided to go to work at a logging company. The enterprise gave Antipins a small plot in the forest and a small hut for spending the night. However, the business closed after a few months. Three more children appeared in the family, and Viktor had to be hired for temporary work in neighboring settlements.

Like the Lykovs, the Antipins were engaged in hunting, setting traps for various forest animals and birds. Clothing was also made independently. In addition, parents were engaged in homeschooling children - they taught them to write, read, draw, etc.

However, the problems of the family only intensified over time, and in the early 2000s, Anna decided to leave the forest. She asked for help from the local chief, and he took Anna and the children out of the taiga. Victor stayed in his hut and starved to death a few months later.

FILIPPYCH

The hermit Vladimir Filippovich Emenka was born in Komi in the village of Datta. Filippych, as he is called now, from childhood was adapted to the conditions of the taiga, he knew how to hunt and make a fire.

As a teenager, Vladimir worked on a fish farm. Then he served in Soviet army and returned to his native village, married. But family life Vladimir Filippovich did not work out, and the couple divorced.

Then Filippych moved closer to the Uda River, those places were rich wild beast. He hunted sables, wolves and other animals. Deciding to become a hermit, Filippych went into the forest, to the region of the Taga River, closer to native village. The hermit continues to hunt, he gets fur-bearing animals and does not use a gun so as not to damage the skin.

Filippych rarely leaves the taiga, but sometimes local hunters come to him and bring him magazines and books, because he loves to read in his free time.

ZHYTOMYR HERMITS

Zhytomyr hermits are a family of three: Ivan Siryk, his wife Victoria and their son Stepan. They lived in Moscow. Ivan was a successful graphic designer, even created own business. Once the couple and their son visited a dolmen in the Caucasus. There, according to them, the spirits of their ancestors shared their wisdom with Ivan: they advised him to quit everything and exist as hermits.

They live not very far from civilization, a few kilometers from the village of Podlesne (Zhytomyr region). In the forest they built small house divided it into three rooms. The floor of this dwelling is covered with straw, there is a heating stove. The house is intended for living in the cold season, in summer the family sleeps on the straw in the "workshops" covered with a glass roof in order to view the night sky.

Siryks do not hunt, they only eat vegetable food. Their son Stepan goes to school, but very rarely, no more than once a month. He is mainly educated at home.

SAMARA HERMITS

Samara hermits are not a family, but a whole group of citizens. They went into the forest religious motives. Father Konstantin, a former Orthodox priest, persuaded people to this way of life.

Together with a group of his students from Samara region Konstantin moved to the area of ​​Lake Bellin-Khol (Tyva). Moreover, to get to this place, I had to hire an expensive helicopter.

People settled in fishing houses that no one had used for a long time, then built more comfortable ones. wooden houses. According to eyewitnesses and relatives of hermits, life in this settlement was organized quite well, people did not suffer and did not die. However, in the late 2000s, Russian rescue services, having learned about what was happening, they evacuated people from the lake and took them back to Samara.