Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach 4:45 p.m., May 10, 2022
In 1978, a helicopter flying over unexplored areas of the Siberian taiga saw a clearing that seemed to be inhabited.
The hut there is 300 kilometers from the first village.
For 41 years, the Lykov family has lived there, completely cut off from the world.
The Lykovs are part of the community of Russian Old Believers, a fundamentalist sect that refuses modernity to preserve its culture.
In 1937, while suffering the persecutions of the Bolsheviks in power, Karp Lyvov, his wife, Akoulin, and their two children decided to take refuge in the forest.
Thus begins their hermit life.