Siberian hermit Agafya Lykova

From RIA Novosti, another update on the Siberian taiga hermit Agafya Lykova, 63, whose Old Believer family moved to Siberia in 1937. Their lives are described in the 1992 book Lost in the Taiga: One Russian Family’s Fifty-year Struggle for Survival and Religious Freedom in the Siberian Wilderness, by Vassily Peskov, reviewed here.

URL: http://en.rian.ru/russia/20090319/120641931.html