Surviving in the Siberian Wilderness for 70 Years (Full Length)
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- In 1936, a family of Russian Old Believers journeyed deep into Siberia's vast taiga to escape persecution and protect their way of life. The Lykovs eventually settled in the Sayan Mountains, 160 miles from any other sign of civilization. In 1944, Agafia Lykov was born into this wilderness. Today, she is the last surviving Lykov, remaining steadfast in her seclusion. In this episode of Far Out, the VICE crew travels to Agafia to learn about her taiga lifestyle and the encroaching influence of the outside world.
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The videographers said they didn't know WHY she told them about her earlier rape. I have the answer. In my aunt's late 70s she blurted out loud to me that her grandfather had molested her. Then she said, "THERE I'VE FINALLY SAID IT." It was a relief for her to finally get it out.
Who else was this woman supposed to tell? She FINALLY told someone. Bless her.
Savin, Dimitry, and the other daughter along with their mom passed away. Karp, the father, could have done it.
Did I miss something? Can you let me know what part of this was at? Unless I missed something, she was never raped and no one discredited her.... She said he sexually harassed her and tried to blackmail her. It's horrible but it's not rape.
@Luke Missirian-Parise
A😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
She wasn’t raped it was mutual sex and the guy found out she wasn’t a virgin which would mean incest. She blurted it out to clear her name and since the geologist and the guy that banged her are dead it’s her word only.
Yeah, I finally told my best friend (and ex) about my rape and he didn't believe me. I felt gutted.
Update; i watched her video today,24/4/2023, She is 80 years old and very health.
Thank you for that update! ❤❤
That’s awesome that you let others know.
Link please
updates: Agafia still alive in the same place, being helped by volunteers, they bring her supplies and help with the garden and the wood fire...
Just being able to talk to someone to me would be a bigger help than anything. I couldn't do it
@@nuttynutts2963 you would if you were born into it.
thanks for the update. how did you find the information?
@@missmurni7515 I read, search her up
Thats Wonderful...Was so thinking of her....Thank U 4 the Updates Justin...;)
I love how she's always smiling.
Because she is clean heart and soul!
That's the peace only Jesus can give you into your heart
Praise the mighty name of the lord
Peaceful life right where she is at since birth.
@@Kewinowicz bro shut up
@@wargamepresents3914 no :)
70 years in wilderness still smiling like an angel , beautiful
I try so hard to be happy and i think that’s why my life goal is to be a hermit 😂 because its so hard to be happy in this mean and greedy society. (Heidi here, not Jaana js)
Like you have seen an angels smile
And still skiing..just an amazing strength in and out
that old man, takes advantage of her kindness by adding to her daily work load and doing his chores for him, then blackmails her, saying she had to have sex with him or he would send her to jail, and even after all of that she still takes care of his ass because she is so kind and generous. she literally owes him nothing.
+IThink IAmLost that's her view of the factts. it looks like a complete bitch to me.
+IThink IAmLost He's a horrible person. In the other film he talked of his wife having six abortions, she should have taken precautions, and it got to be too much for him.
+IThink IAmLost So if they had sex where is the baby?
+Brad Shapka menopause genius
+kelly spencer maybe they love each other
Update on her:3 weeks ago they built her a new house,she is still alive and well
Thank you for the update! I think of this woman often, whenever life seems difficult. She has become a source of inspiration and strength, and also an icon to respect and admire, for many people throughout the world because of this documentary.
That is good news. If you have never lived anywhere else it is usually best to stay where you are. My neighbour hardly ever leaves her house and she likes her isolation - I think it suits some of us older women well.
i will give her a lobotomy for free
@@master-azazel you seriously have a lonely and pathetic life if your enjoyment is coming to the comments section of this video and posting over and over again that this woman needs a lobotomy.
appreciate that! did she slit the geologists neck yet?
Despite the harsh conditions she lives in she still looks so happy, always smiling! What a pure gem Agafia is in this modern world.
Imagine, Agafia's mother starved herself to death so her children would have more food. If that isn't the act of a loving mother, I don't know what is.
A loving mother wouldn't have brought children in that environment in the first place, or had more children than she could afford to raise. All for the sake of religious fanaticism
modern women prefer abortion. so satan's is literary here already.
I suspect the people who have replied to you here, Maria, didn't understand your sentence structure.. My mother did the same for me and my Brother in an abusive marriage. Thanks to my Dad being a [insert really bad word here] I never got to grow up with a Father and my Mother suffered many long years. I can appreciate the act of Agafia's Mother and I totally understand this, which is one reason why I have faith.
@@Vasilia4 you are a fucking idiot
It would have been more loving if she took a rifle and put her children and herself out of their misery. What child would want to see their mother die? And die for what? Die so that they can continue a life of misery now without their beloved mother?
It isn't an act of love, but an act of stupidity masqerading as love.
This woman is more interesting than every hipster that has ever been on vice combined.
+Bouchon211 nuh, I don't think so. Very rushed generalization. Everyone has a story to tell. And I don't find the hipster lifestyle particularly appealing. But they do have their own stories. Just like mara members in Nicaragua, or a monk in Tibet who has renounced everything, or hedge fund babies in the middle of Brooklyn.
Carlos Parra No, no they don't. 99% are boring upper middle class kids from Minnesota.
Bouchon211 nuh...I'm sure even you have a story and is not more or less boring than any other.
I stick by my original comment.
+Bouchon211 Such nonsense. This woman would exhaust her knowledge of the world in one evening of conversation. What of philosophy, science, technology, literature, politics and music? What of all we have learned in the last 70 years? She knows nothing. No books, no insight, just silly religious barbarism.
Talk about strong independent woman! I searched her up and still lives there at 77 all alone because the geologist died in 2016. Now she’s the type of person I admire.
You did a serious homework in quarantine. Thanks for the update
😂😂😂@10 second rule, a great student
Go to the wilderness then, and see how long you survive without a man Eve.
@@LegalizeTheNuclearBomb Trying to make men special again? That man was a millstone around her neck.
@@deniseward002 lol
I live in Greece. I am so grateful for CZcams. You can see parts of the world so different than yours. ❣️
Αυτό είναι το ωραίο στο CZcams 😊
internet is a great thing..
This woman deserves paradise
i think she is already there, in Taiga Land
She's already IN paradise. :)
she is already and also after her death for sure ! she is a saint !
I pray she will be there when she rests her eyes for the final time. God Bless Agafia.
@@ianmackie8161
In sha Allah.
the women is the richest in the world, she is filled with satisfaction and happiness. God bless
Absolutely correct,,she is a lucky woman
Here is a hint to her secrets '' If thine Eye be Single ,, then thy whole body be filled with Light ''
I too have read about certain places in Georgia state , in Russia '.National Geographic 'had an Article about these extremely long lived people ,- like farmers and folks in that area have had a very fondness as too who they are ,, as they all get along very well .
Moreover , they seem to thrive in health as well. It would be interesting to know what Ancient potent bloodline they have descended from. !?!?
She has basically unlimited land and everything she needs for a happy simple life of devotion and meditation. I am literally filled with sadness that I can't live like her.
I’m totally obsessed with this. Watched her story a few times but the dog makes me so sad.
Yes I just watched this documentary and the fact she keeps that lovely dog chained up is heartbreaking. In ALL that space and yet not free????
I agree!! Of course the dog is destructive if she NEVER lets her off the chain!! Doesn’t she understand that the dog remains an undisciplined and naive inexperienced puppy until she is trained and gets used to new environment? Someone should remove that dog-I hate that part of this video- makes that woman seem stupid-I’m sorry but it does!! She has no understanding that the dog could be her best ally-and nobody who visited told her? At that point the dog’s life and ability to learn is ruined but any new dog should be treated completely different or else Agafia shouldn’t be allowed to keep a dog at All!
This woman is a nun. At this point. An angel. I broke down and cried at how selfish and how much stuff I had in my life and never appreciate it. 😢😢. She is an angel and truly free. ❤
She never lost her smile. What an inspirational person
the less your IQ is, the happier u are. Axiom.
@@cronussful The more you have, the more you get depressed
yes she was
So what did she inspire you to do or maybe you don't know what "inspire" means?
@@cronussful Being smart isn't always useful
I will NEVER feel sorry for myself again. God Bless Agafia.
Agafia is truly an inspiration to me, living alone in city from 35 to 64 now. Only a couple of friends, I thought I am alone, But this Lady has thought me a lot about happiness.
May God keep her in His Grace forever 🙏❤️
❤️🤗🐾🇫🇴😇✌️✌️✌️❤️
She has the sweetest smile! it's interesting to know someone like her is alive on the other side of the world, while I'm sitting here in bed on my laptop. Seeing her is almost like looking back in time
I'm Russian and I actually have a hard time understanding her speech at times. It's amazing how language changes in isolation.
Просто у нее дефекты речи, видимо старческое уже. Но слова более чем понятны и похожи на все современные.
it does not change in isolation, it changes where most people live, in isolation language remains same. language changes by new generations, they use new terms and slang, after sometime is it put in law.
From watching another documentary about her she speaks Old Slavic as well. So she speaks two languages.
Youre the idiot here, tbh. Thats a dumb. Dumb . Thing to say
I think she is missing some teeth that's why you find a bit hard to understand this wonderful lady
i dont know why but agafia has this divine sense to her. She speaks so smooth, she does everything like literally, you could say shes literally the last of a dying breed. she took care of a man who did her extremely wrong and yet she still pushes through. The woman chops trees herself, has farm animals, lives in super cold climate, wow ... these vice documentaries truly make me appreciate my life. We tend to overlook the blessings we have while people of other cultures continue to persevere through much tougher environments.
Sad thing when she's gone people will start to worship her. Instead of helping her right now when she needs it.
I am so happy that young Russian people as part of a volunteer program at their university continue to assist Agafya survive and remain in her home in the taiga wilderness. I have followed her story for the last couple of years and now find it is sad to learn that her health is starting to fail. She is a wonderful example of truly lived Christianity albeit according to the customs of the Old Believers from the Eastern Russian Orthodox Church which, as a Westerner, is difficult for me to understand, but I am learning!
I am Eastern orthodox. It’s a beautiful faith from old but it is closer to Christianity than what you see today. It is descended from the actual apostles.
@@Mark-yb1sp honestly I’m so happy to have recently discovered orthodoxy I grew up Baptist and felt that we had a very surface level and empty faith and understanding of God and the Bible it seems most American Christian’s are just atheists in denial and the Roman Catholic Church was out of the question for me because of some of the very obvious anti biblical beliefs but then I found orthodoxy and I knew right then this is as close to the first church as I’ll ever be able to get of course it isn’t all perfect we’re still human and get some things wrong but at least this church seems to believe in God
As an atheist I do not believe in gods, however I believe Agafia get's her strength from her religion. Wishing Agafia well.
True incest Christianity. At least in this particular example.
Very ignorant to shed any positive light on that.
@@321scully As an atheist I believe she is wasting her time and energy on things that make absolutely no difference, when the time could be spent on doing actual chores. I view it as a useless hobby. You can't work all day in practice I guess, and I don't think she reads books.
What a blessed lady. I feel like her home will become a pilgrimage site one day
It's sad that she is alone, but she seems to have a happy soul.
+Brandy Garrett Why is it sad that she is alone? Not everyone needs 200 ''friends''.
+Brandy Garrett she has pets though
+Kameron Wraith du Kemp Anyone who lives alone and keeps pets desire companionship and misses socializing. This is a sad story of a crazy father ruining his family's lives in desperate times.
+FreeManWalking Karp Lykov, had taken the decision to flee normal civilisation in 1936 after a communist patrol arrived at the fields on which he was working and shot dead his brother.
+FreeManWalking His desperation didn't drive him crazy, it made him think of the most logical solution during that time. There's a reason why he fled so far where not even cars could reach him.
Sedov, the old one legged geologist is dead now but Agafia is still there, living her life.
Damn, she is? What a legend! Thx for the update
Thanks for the news, my heart is not cool , the asshole has gone
RIP
@@sher1411 Agreed - that sleaze was a parisitic bastard
RIP brave man
Something strange just happened...After watching this ....I feel ...I feel extremely humbled to a point that watching this just once will effect me for years to come...Thank you CZcams...
we’re on the same boat!
Hey, nice, the book did alsoo with me: That ius the truth what is speaking, nice to meet jou all up her!
TRULY,TRULY ALL ABSOLUTELY BEYOND UNIMAGINABLY UNIMAGINABLE TRANSCENDENT TRANSCENDENTAL BOUNDLESSNESS LEVELS OF AMAZINGLY AMAZING AMAZINGNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JAEDEN ABNER D'SA.
My thoughts exactly... I was slightly haunted , embarrassed and astonished all at the same time . I worked in wisconsin winters in construction . I thought I was hardened. She blows away everything I’ve ever done and remains more content... simply amazing
What a wonderful woman of faith....and so resourceful and clever to build and maintain her own home using what little she has, despite the hardships and the freezing cold.
The way her cat sits on her shoulder is so beautiful.
You're beautiful
I lived in complete solitude for over a year and a half.. without seeing a single Human being..so I can understand in part her emotional thought..but 27 years without contact of others..gives me pause.
Eva B. Yep, it would make a great photograph or painting.
All cats do that.
My Norwegian Forest cat sits on my shoulders. Only mine. It is a great sign of affection. Her story is amazing.
I loved how he said.. "The wilderness cleanses the soul". She is one very special and incredible woman. Such peace, calmness and acceptance reflects from her. May the rest of her life be kind to her.
isn't it ironic that while you watch these videos ; at the same time you're bombarded by ads that promise you riches and material things that hold you down and enslave you?
return to nature, my friend
@@RubleInnawoods or, get uBlock Origin. I haven't seen an ad in years. I guess watching this all the way through with no ad breaks made it even more special of a documentary than for most.
The ads are incessant. That's Vice for ya. Money hungry.
@@deniseward002 if you feel like Vice are money hungry, why aren't you using an ad blocker? People supporting advertising based profit systems allows companies like them to be as trashy as they are.
@@christofthedead I dig the twist there. I do have an ad blocker but not while using Chrome of course because that is google-based and the ad blocker still runs the incessant ads. I normally use Opera and it was playing up on some video playing platforms but they've fixed it now so I'm back to Opera, which is a million times better than Chrome.
I love how she does everything with a smile on her face. What a wonderful woman.
She's beautiful inside out. She doesn't even look 70. Always smiling.
Remember: No matter how hard life seems to get for you, Agafia at age 70 can survive in the middle of literally nowhere and still smile.
hard life is only in the city jungle
I know many people in America who dream to live a life like Agafia but because everything is privatize today they can not afford it.
buy own land if u can
Robstar Not everyone can afford to buy a land today.
Lanka Fortunata
You only have to buy land/house, where there's a modern life going on. In Russia there's thousands of villages, either abandoned or 80% empty. Come and live there all you want. No one cares.
The documentary “happy people” werner herzog is brilliant. All about this
Best part: "once they brought a radio and it always seemed to be about one person killing another person, do I need to listen to that?"
That's it, I am turning off the damn garbage news!
It's amazing that at her age she is still agile. She certainly doesn't move like a 70 year old.
Joyta FV when you have to exercise every day it makes a difference I imagine
Joyta FV natural food
It's easy like my old man says work as soon as you start sitting in the armchair you're finished
Most russians are like that. They know how to endure. Tough as nails too.
But she was born in 1944, so she turned 70 in 2014, so if she is still alive, she is 76!
'Taiga makes you reflect on your actions, it cleanses your soul' That was the highlight for me ! 👏🏻
thumbs up! he seems to be such a kindhearted lad, doesn't he
Beautyfull whise old lady😇🙏
Yeah...guess not for the raping blackmailing geologist.
@@catjack66205 lol
no shes crazy. cmon people dont make it ok because she lives elsewhere. she needs lobotomy
Nine years later, I wonder i she is still alive? What an amazing woman she is!
I checked online. Apparently she died in November/December 2019. The date isn't known for obvious reasons.
@@incumbentvinyl9291 What kind of line did you check it on? Or are you just blatantly lying? She's still alive, has a helper and Russian billionaire Deripaska is building her a new house.
And....who do i vote?
@@incumbentvinyl9291. She isn't dead she is very much alive.
@@geraldinethomas3180 If you speak Russian, write the necessary words into the search engine.
This is not exactly a world famous person, so I do not know exactly what information is available in English.
I couldnt help but notice her teeth. Yes they are worn and covered in plaque, but they are not destroyed. She hasn't been exposed to the junk food modern society has, so even without any dentistry, has functioning teeth at age 70. That alone is a very telling sign that her way of life is incredibly different to ours.
How shallow.
@@MargaritaMagdalena Westerners, especially Americans, really pay attention to people’s teeth.
toothbrushes have existed for thousands of years, why do you think she doesn't brush her teeth?
@@sopita8063 Drinking freshly boiled cow milk does wonders for the teeth. vtrmcs is saying we as a civilization have lost that.
@@MargaritaMagdalena Why would you say that?? If someone remarked on the obvious health of her bones there where walking is so important, would you say that is shallow?
Love the way she lives in a totally isolated place, paying a high price for that quietness, facing bears, having to survive...yet still has an asshole who settles just next to her, harasses her, blackmails her, and is in need of care as he cant do anything by himself. Why cant people just leave other people alone ?
If he left her alone
She would be All alone
Sounds like mass immigration tbh.
@@sh-hg4eg based
это так потому что ты глупый.
@@sh-hg4eg more like good old fashioned sexism of man towards a woman
"I would give it all away..." and she is the first one I truly believe!!!
Damn!I felt that
They don't make women like that anymore
She ist full of the holy Spirit!
Can you imagine she build everthing by herself? That alone is amazing me.
The geologist, Mr. Sedov, passed away at age 77 in 2015. Since he died in May when it was rather warm Agafia buried him herself. The son of Mr. Sedov commented in a Siberian Times article that he will be forever gratefult to Agafia because his father now rests in his most beloved place.
Seems she gets regularly visiitors nowadays, tourists who read the book about her family or saw this docu, other Old Believers and orthodox Christians, researchers working nearby and so forth. Probably too much for her liking I can imagine. There are russian vids on YT where some of it is documented. I hope she can live there in (somewhat) autonomy till the end.
What is the title and author of the book about Agafia and her life. I must know please.
@@pollydixon3591 I have it, it's called "Lost in the Taiga: One Russian family's fifty-year struggle for survival and religious freedom in the Siberian wilderness" by Vasily Peskov. It's hard to find and used copies go for over 100 bucks these days. Some might be disillusioned by reading it and/or doing additional research because you'll find out that this family didn't live as isolated as often portrayed in media (and certainly on YT) and of course Agafia herself even had married a man after her father passed and had lived in a old believer's community in a city for a while. Plus there are some ugly allegations about sexual abuse in this family. It's an interesting albeit short read though.
imagine being so alone and having a creepy blackmailer geologist as a neighbor
I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING! Boy, he was a trip 😤
YES. Imagine living far out in the wildernis and still having a creepy stalker... This is mad.
@@Kasumistern and Naked Dancing Heathen and Hubur Galula, then Maybe this is a good time to review, your believes on what a stalker actually is ( in modern society terms ) For something that is Really bad in one situation, apparently can be, not as bad, or even good, in another. Now I'm Not saying you should go on, loving stalkers from now on, that would be foolish and dangerous, but I Am saying that things, that modern society has made us believe to be really bad, are nothing more then just another invention ( in a long line of those ) to keep ordinairy people devided ! For in a Un-divided society, stalkers probably wouldn't even exist ! Ask yourself simple questions like, is she, better of, now he is dead ? Or, maybe being all alone, is worse then being stalked ? Now, I'm also Not attacking any of you or defending that idiot rapist ( what he probably was, but is nowhere proven ) And I am, sure as Hell, NOT saying, she probably liked to be raped, for Nobody "likes" to be, at the recieving end of something like that, even when you see her telling the story with a smile on her face, as she did all throu the video and to me gave the impression, that she was a happy person, living a happy life, inspite of all things that we percieve as terrible, dangerous, and thus, not for us !
Hubur, he would be a woman if he harassed me
@@svetlanikolova7673 nobody will ask your opinion
The 400 year old prayer book is amazing!
written in old Slavic language ,that few people even speak today...she sing her prayers in that language and i cant understand nothing,nor any Russian can...i am not Russian but Slavic,so all Slavic languages have same roots,and i can understand Russian almost all,but nothing of that old Slavic language
They should take pics of it and publish a new one
It should be really collected and archived for preservation and historical purposes after she's gone (she may be by now but god I hope she isn't and still has her good health)
Totally amazing, my dad's father brought a book like that with him when he fled WWI that's written in some kind of old Swäbisch dialect even my dad doesn't understand.
@@sinkosav koji si ti ?
I have so much admiration for Agafia and people who live the wisdom and hardships of these nomadic, ancient lifestyles. Over the years, I have realised that living a simpler, more natural way of life is the true secret to the path of happiness and contentment and is a way of life that, I am searching for (although, the wilderness is very hard, if not impossible to find in my tiny, overpopulated 'home' island of the UK). The park ranger was right in saying, The wilderness cleanses your soul and it is a life I hope to be able to emulate in some capacity one day. For now I am making do with living in my van which, is a compromise to the log cabin I dream of. Thank you for this inspiring documentary and I wish Agafia many blessings of good health and abundance in her future🌈🙏🌠🕊🌿💞
I am always restored to a good mood when I watch this video about Agafia’s life and how she keeps her spirits high in complete isolation.
this woman is amazing
Best way to survive this????? Move to Siesta Key, FL ; )`
i'm amazinger
She is really beautiful n so hard-working in these days.. That dude who lost his leg n cant even move properly.. Its heartbreaking to see him stranded 16 years in that shack.. Without her help that guy will not last.. Plz you amazing people help anyway everyway you can but plz do it silently without her knowing.. Im sure she will feel insulted if we act like we try to give handout.. She is like those lady i heard from mom.. They will rather choose to die or starve but they will never take handouts or begging.
I love everything about the story.. She is my idle how to maintain a simple happy knife with so little things
craig norton piss addict!!
stop ur mumbling
one of the best videos I've seen from VICE. What a blessed woman and I hope she lives to 100, healthy and strong.
xev1435 that's unlikely, she is in poor health due to age but still works hard because she has to.
Imagine an old lady raising animals as companions after every member of her family united with the soil, the food she gathers has to be in extra quantity because she has to divide the food with her pets so the trouble she took to collect would've been so immense like she was actually raising children. God truly bless her soul and heart ❤
What an amazing woman, wow. And it's just mind boggling how tough she is. Really puts things into perspective how the world is now. Bless her.
16:25 "The secret to survival is really simple: every day, routine hard work"
It's sad that of the hundreds of topics they could have chosen to speak with her about they choose to focus in part on a very dark part of her experiences. What about her first memories? Her favorite things, her least favorite. Her family. Her religion. Her garden. Her tools. Her medicine. So many things they never shared.
Swimbait1, I know!!! This is the 2nd documentary that "The Sinful Deed" is spoke about, I really wish they'd stop inquiring of such thing!!
yeah in one of the russian documentaries they go pretty into the room that the dad had incestual relations with her and her sister.
Swimbait1 whatever. She loves to talk about that man being sinful with her. Lol she talks about it with every interview.
The flea on Twinkies ass They literally ask her.
It's part of life...good and evil. Without the latter she would have lived a pure life, but only Jesus did, tho' some said he had a relationship with Mary. Inspite of the ugly she was a beautiful woman. Luck she wasn't impregnated.
as a Russian myself, I barely understand her without subtitles. she has a very interesting speech
I've enjoyed this video several times and again this morning. My mother was russian. She left her family home in 1942 at the age of 18, never to see her mother, father, and relatives again. She talked of childhood visits to her grandparents in Siberia. Agafia's life reminds me of these stories.
Began reading comments to find out if there has been any news of Agafia since making this video, but there are so many negative comments that I almost cry. I can't read anymore. God bless Agafia with the Love and Light she so vibrantly shares to all.
Found my own answer. There is a new video made in June 2014 but I can't share the URL here.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts here. I concur. It saddens me to read all the negative and insensitive comments. She is a child that was raised in isolation in an inhospitable place, and yet she is welcoming and smiles frequently. She is deeply religious as was her family. Her faith is what keeps her strong and allows her to view the world with a spiritual purity that is impossible to find anywhere today.
Sadly we live in an age where God is all but disappearing and those that profess a different viewpoint become the subject of ridicule, shame, and hatred. I believe in God and I also believe that science provides many wonderful things, unfortunately we continue to use science and technology to destroy rather than to better the lives of others. I pray that Agafia is safe and warm.
Raquel Sedano with out faith this is old world is in trouble you are right however each one will be paid for his doing at the end . I believe we are to show more patience and love toward one another even when difficult ,the one making negatives coments are to feel sorry for.....
Are you a commie?
SPOOKYBill Communism is gone sir, so please don't think that every Russian is a Communist, vise versa for the Chinese.
Have a nice morning/day/afternoon/evening sir.
That "world" is all that she has ever known. It's amazing how strikingly different that our individual life experiences are.
What a clean heart Agafia has? I really love the way she's living her life
She is a breath of fresh air from all the toxic people in this world...God Bless her!!
30:12 is hilarious to me, it's actually got some symbolism. That sophisticated piece of modern technology ends up in the remote taiga, with an old woman beating it with a stick saying it's good to scare off bears.
Haaaahahah!
Damn... even living alone in Siberia, women are still getting harassed.
Kate Malone .... funny comment!!! 🤣
Carriann Johnson You have a dark sense of humor.. good for you! 🤣 Dark times ahead..
Kate Malone ... you have to in these days we live in, right?! Yes, there are. Be safe and keep looking up! ☝🏼
I'm thinking at that poor woman, she could have lived alone in peace then came this dirty old men saying he wanted to live with her to help her and from that time Agafia had to stand his rape threats and serve him as if alone in the Taiga wasn't enough.
She's so pure and naive ,someone please explain her that she can toss his ass away and that nobody never could handcuff her without reasons. If I was that vice reporter I would do anything to keep that old man away from her .
@@katymaloney they are indeed . .. . coming as I feel it .. . .
It hurt me to my core to hear this beautiful woman explain to the vice reporter, "It was a sinful act." She is internalizing this predatory act done by that vile geologist man. So sad that the act mad her feel like dying and it wasn't even her fault. This woman is an angel being taken advantage of by a monster.
It was contact with the geologist that caused her brothers to die od pneumonia....otherwise they may have still been alive with her. So dreadful that horrible man uses her to get water food and firewood. He should be taken awY & locked up. PUTIN should make her a national treasure and set her up with proper gas heating and heaps of other luxury like a snow scooter and plenty of frozen meat. Makes her life easy.
Your listening comprehension is abysmal.
She speaks of a ''sinful act'', which could be just about anything. She is an Old Believer, the bar for a ''sinful act'' is incredibly low. We also do not know if she participated willingly in some of it and potentially regretted it later due to her beliefs. After all, how exactly does a one legged man force himself on an able bodied woman? The guy can barely move at all, I just don't see it.
She never said the act made her feel like dying, you were not listening. The letter he wrote, that was in practice blackmail, is what made her want to leave and starve do death in the wilderness.
From a purely logistical and rational perspective. Heating up two cabins so close to each other is an extreme waste of resources when there are only two people present. Double the firewood and double the work.
@@incumbentvinyl9291 she said she was sick. it's implied he raped her
@@nottodaybucko How does him being ''sick'' imply penetrative rape?
Do you speak Russian? Do you understand the words she uses?
Also, take into consideration that she is supposedly a pious person, an Old Believer. Anything at all could be considered ''sick'' in her mind when it comes to sexuality.
@@Fidelista23the former geologist died in 2015. Agafia got gifted a new hut and was still living there the same year as the new hut arrived - 2021.
What a brilliant documentary. Discovered this after 9 years . Thanks CZcams algorithm . Bless you vice
I learned a lot from this lady. I have milk goats, chickens, ducks, and a garden. I am going to gather more branches for the goats to eat, and grow potatoes next year, and I may try cutting down some small trees in the woods. She has so many skills. Fishing. Hunting. Chopping down trees. Weaving. Making flour. Cooking rustically. And she prays and sings to God during chores. It is too bad that she has no help. It is a miracle of her faith that has kept her going, I think. What an inspiration.
They brought her a goat by helicopter, at least there's that.
Yes, and what a nice calm little beast. I looked at that goat. I think that goat was a boyfriend for her milk goats. Goats can inbreed pretty well, but after some generations they need a new contibution to the gene pool, or the babies will be weak and die young. You know, animals can be very affectionate and emotional, and caring in their own way. I bet they help her survive. I love my goats.They can be nicer than people. Her cats seem to be very friendly with her, too
Can't imagine any good being not being friendly with her. Beautiful.
haha ha goats can be nicer than people ;) sadly it is true
She got a helper in 2014
God bless this woman. Hardworking, independent and such a loving soul. And when she prays it sounds beautiful!
Side note: I feel sorry for the poor dog tied to a short leash. What a miserable life.
😅 👈
She is so honest in her talks, we don't see that nowadays. Btw somebody tell her to unleash the dog from time to time, she barks from anxiety.
Yes I noticed that. But I guess she can't afford to lose more butter.
The dig crying and tied there is driving me nuts! Ignorant to animal suffering! Shame on the men there!
@@theresanoble1695 You wouldn't impose your ways on a host, would you?
@@manuelriveros2911 It's not about 'ways', it's about awareness. If she had a small child chained up and crying 24/7 in a room out there because she didn't know any better, anyone would rescue it.
My mom's grandma is 108 and she doesn't live as remote as this but in a fairly remote area in southern Mexican mountains. Something about this solitude living makes you so much stronger and more willing to live
she's mexican so no credit there . build the wall
True. Modern civilization has and still is the death of us in many ways.
you are a troll@@sanitei8767
valerissimo the lovely I’m just a simple democrat that voted for Hillary and wants to see as many children aborted as possible
sanitei the fuck is your problem? Because she’s brown? Fuck you
God is in her and with her. God bless her she is such a beautiful soul. She is a living saint. The little she has she is so grateful .
Thank you for making this beautiful film. Though sad, Agafia's faith is the brightest spot and the creator kept her company through His beautiful creation.
Talvez este seja o melhor de todos os vídeos que já vi no CZcams.
Parabéns a todos os envolvidos.
Abraços desde Santa Catarina, extremo Sul do Brasil.
her faith keeps her alive and, her routine keeps her healthy.
Siberia is insane. Area is so large that it makes me wonder what kinda mysteries there are .
LeDari it's only snow
Globle Studio is. that what you saw last week. huh?
LeDari my mother God rest her soul was taken there by the Soviets to a work camp at Archangel. The area is huge and Russia is a country full of natural resources, coal, gold, precious stones, oil, gas, etc etc I agree with you that there must be lots of secrets there.
Rise of the tomb raider c:
+katana_92 kitana lol
9 years ago ! Just came up, fyp or whatever...
Awesome documentary, this is why I liked watching vice all those years ago, this type of raw film , once in a lifetime experience to go and be in that situation.
Yes it is CZcams algorithm 😮
How I wish I could get to see you personally to thank you for being such a beautiful soul, Agafia. You are an inspiration. God bless you...
She has the most beautiful, genuine smile I’ve ever seen♥️ she inspires me to live simply.
If you think her way of life is simple, and yours isn't. Well..
"Alexa, put the coffee on and remind me to go to my hair appointment"
www.lavanguardia.com/internacional/20160120/301552223221/agafia-lykova-siberia-ermitana.html
There is an awakening to Christ coming slowly but surely, and He is all about simplicity, humility, and selflessness. There are still very few who have eyes to see, most are under a spell of selfishness.
Sometimes I am mesmerised by the strength of some human beings.
Well, evolution dictates that only the strong survive so humans having a strong survival instict should be rather common
I love this soul. Clean around her. I see just peace and light
Amazing, wonderful woman! Constantly working to survive! I saw her goat kiss her on the cheek to thank her for milking her! It was the sweetest gesture! Agafia must have been very strong to be able to survive her lifestyle! She has a beautiful soul!
The fact that her neighbor dis her bad twice and she is still taking care of him just shows how good of a human being she is....Women in the past had such difficult lives...salutes to her she survived all..God Bless 🙏🏽
Agafia was likely to be lonely and a caring person.
Go easy on the fairy tales.
What neighbor did to her?
@@enisubasic461 Supposedly he raped her back in the '70s. He also tried to blackmail her for sexual favours, it would seem. He also did something ''sinful'' as she put it, with him. However it's not known if that was consensual.
she should take an axe to that guy before its too late.
i fell in love with this woman, her simplicity, her passion, her warm smile everything that i never thought could remain in a woman that's as old as my mom. wish i could help her with daily chores in her this old age.
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she s kinda crazy man
@@Underpressure11 how
This woman mentioned she got sick every time she went to the city. This is likely because she’s grown up her entire life secluded from all the different viruses (there’s literally over 100 different cold virus strains alone) we become immune to as children. She essentially has the immune system of a baby when it comes to social illnesses.
And that the visit from scientists back in the 60s quickly wiped out three of her siblings who died of pneumonia from contact with outsiders 😢
Incorrect. Her immune system is perfectly preserved by nature. When she stepped into a city, she stepped into toxic terrain, and her body responded negatively so that she would leave and protect herself. When the geologists visited her, they brought the toxins to her, and then shed them to her siblings. It is not a testament of the deadliness of virus, but rather the toxicity of civilized humans.
@@AddamSolo people don’t shed toxins. The children were killed from a virus, and developed pneumonia. Immune systems are not preserved by nature, by staying secluded for generations. It’s a healthier way of living in the sense that they’re breathing fresher air, but that’s it. If there were enough toxins to kill those children, it would have killed the scientists too.
@@a.walters123 Incorrect. A human body can adapt to amazing levels of toxicity, as seen in cities with fluoridated water, bromated bread, alum infused deoderan, etc. These things break down and toxify the body. Humans indeed can shed “toxins,” and you should need no further proof than the current “crisis,” the world is in.
A remote jungle tribe were nearly wiped out by flu from a visiting camera crew
that smile she had is one of the most genuine thing i've seen -2021
21:00 SHE'S 70 AND MANUALLY SAW THAT HUGE TIMBER!
WOW SHES AMAZING STRONG WOMAN.
because her food is not toxic.
Definately
Timberrrr!!!!!
No words to describe this remarkable woman's spirit. She could of asked for anything from production crew, but she chose a goat and rooster. I love this woman
I don’t think a flatscreen TV or a Mercedes e-class would’ve done her much good…
because those are things she *needs*. we have become so separated from survival due to modern life that our wants have become needs - even though they're truly just wants
From the start of modern society, people have become more dependent on comfort and social status. That is why each generation following the next became so fixated on the wrong essentials. Which is spirituality, morals and respect. You do the math, or let Siri do it for you. Take care out there and may God have mercy on our souls.
I would have died because i would ask for a Pepsi and a Butterfinger
@@mre7438 , for delusions sake; Raw peanuts and Beer 🍺
I'm glad watched this. What an incredible and fascinating person she is. Her smile and her faith is amazing!
I find her insireing and sad both. Its sad she is getting up in years ( I am 61) but she is living alone. I couldnt live happily without the internet. I can not leave the house for a week but google takes me every where. Such a different life.
The sad reality is that youth my age now live through the internet almost exclusively and it is not living
Millions of elderly people from rural areas, in the countries of former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, struggle to daily maintain their household, digging and watering their vegetables garden, taking care of their domestic animals, repairing everything themselves, when possible. They are not as isolated as Agafia and her family, but they share with her the struggle to live off their own vegetables and animals, to avoid spending money whenever possible. Far away from their children and grandchildren that settled in the cities, they cannot afford to rest until they die. And like Agafia, they are happier with their hard work routine then to go to the city and live with their children, in an environment that they simply don't like.
Wrong!!!!!!! All eldery people want to live with children and grandchildren. Best option is a farms,out from city,drugs,criminal. Live healthy family life! U dumb she misses her family and she wants turn back time,but she lost all family members and she is too old to move to city ur dumb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Her voice is so melody. They can make a movie about her Agafia the great
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Once again, this Believer's life story is back
with even more detail which warms my heart. Thank you, excellent videos!
Agafia has nothing yet Smiles more than anyone i ever seen.
Agafja has everything, that`s us who has nothing.
This dear woman puts me to shame. God continue to bless this woman, your child.
Who's still wondering where Agafia could be this time, in 2019?
I truly am.
2019 - Agathia is there, last time they heard from her she asked to find her a female companion.
@@user-oe2cc3tc5t like a helper
Really... the only barrier now is the language, I don't have kids and I doubt relocation can be a problem,
She's still there and still smiling, no doubt but Yerofey died a few years back.
What a strong woman, one of a kind. My parents are from the same generation as her and they don’t like change either , accept they live in city. This woman is the most physically fit person I ever seen at her age. Very inspirational!
What an amazing woman with an amazing story. I’m privileged to have watched it.
Erofey died, which must have taken an incredible burden off this incredible woman's life.
Yep, it was the highlight of her decade. She got down on her knees and thanked her god for the great bounty he blessed her with.
Good
Although she seemed that he was a burden to her. I think she enjoyed his company to an certain extent. But I could be wrong. We don't know much more of there story than what was protrayed in the video
@Harry Sachs She can't go against her strong belives, Yerofey know it. I think it was easy to him to manipulate her into something. Still it's not clear if it was mutual or not.
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Through out the documentary i was reminded of my grandmother who died 7 years ago,, I am from a poor part of India and though our region is not a remote one but the sensibilities and faithfulness of my granny is some what same like this angel Agafia... FEELING SO BLESSED!!!
This is one of the most amazing videos I have ever seen. God Bless that wonderful strong woman!!!
She has one of the purest smiles I have ever seen.
She is the most alive person ive ever seen. Her expression is the most genuine of all the human beings ive ever came in contact with. Last of who we were supposed to be. She will take her true beauty to her grave. God Bless.
This is true. Agafia has not been corrupted by time and the advancement of technology. Her soul and heart are pure, not sinless but pure because of her relationship with God. He has sustained her so that others would see her life and how she lives it according to God's will.
George 420 "corrupted by the advancement of technology", the day you're gonna need a peacemaker, you'll be thankful for this "corruption". Technology is such a trendy scapegoat for all the badness is this world.
@ShitisReal, You have taken my comment out of context about technology. We live in a materialistic world and technology interferes with our spirituality. We are drawn away from God by things. Yes, there is some good that come from the advancement of science but it is soulless.
George 420 I'm not religious but i support and thrive to be good. But when people talk about technology breaking "spirituality", i don't know tangibly what they want to say. People i know and meet everyday aren't "evil", i play games on my computer but i still have a sense of morality.
@@shitisreal4046 In and of itself technological advances are helpful to mankind, yet it can be a distraction if you allow it. It doesn't make a person evil by applying it to their lives for good purposes. The youth today get caught up in it to the point it becomes an addiction. I had watched a group of young people in a restaurant and each one was texting someone without looking up once to talk to the friends they were with. Verbal conversation is being replaced by I-Phones. This is only one example of how we are drawn away from spirituality.