Siberia is the last and largest wilderness on earth. It extends from the far end of the Russian arctic region southward to Mongolia, and from Ural eastward to the Pacific Ocean. Most of Russia's oil and mineral resources are buried under this 5 million square miles of land. Because the winter in Siberia is very long, so every warm day, many explorers and geological prospectors come to this unsealed uninhabited land to search for buried treasures.
In the summer of 1978, a group of geologists was passing the forest line about a hundred miles from the Mongolian border. At the same time, a helicopter was sent to explore an unnamed valley in Abakan. The pilot observed from the air that there were dense woods at both ends of the valley, steep cliffs, and a turbulent river flowing between the two mountains. Suddenly, the pilot, who was concentrating on finding a landing site, found a clearing on the hillside about 6,000 feet from the bottom of the valley.
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It is sandwiched between the pine tree and larch , and there seems to be a long black furrow on it. After repeated confirmations by the crew, the final conclusion is that this is evidence of human activity, although the authorities have no record of any human activity living in the area.
The crew reported this discovery to four fellow scientists, which confuses them. After repeated discussions, they decided to visit in person. They chose a sunny day, packed their backpacks with guns and gifts for new friends, and set off under the leadership of a geologist.
When they came to the hillside that the pilot found, they finally confirmed their conjecture. There is a black shed made of birch beside a small stream, and there is a container made of bark filled with crushed potatoes beside the shed.
when they enter inside,I was stunned immediately. At that moment, they seemed to be back in the Middle Ages. Strictly speaking, apart from the exterior of this so-called house, everything else looks more like a cave. Everything in the house is made of readily available things. The floor is made of potato skins and pine nut husks. It is narrow and cold.
The sudden sound of sobbing broke the silence in the room. In the dim light, a woman knelt down and prayed. There was a pair of frightened and slightly angry eyes beside a small window at the far end.
Under the leadership of geologists, they left the house in a hurry, settled down a few tens of meters away from the hut, and settled for lunch by the way. About half an hour later, an old man came out of the door with two young women. They looked calmer, but the girl's face was still slightly scared.
They slowly approached and sat down. The geologist asked them to have lunch together, but they refused. The geologist asked the old man, "Have you ever eaten bread?" The old man replied, "I have eaten, they have not eaten, and they have never seen it."
The life experience of the old man
After several visits, I finally figured out the identity of the old man. The old man’s name is Kapu Lakoff, and he is a member of the Russian Orthodox fundamentalist sect . Since Peter the Great , he has been persecuted. He believed that Peter the Great was "an antichrist in human form", and the tsar's movement to modernize Russia by "cutting off the beards of Christians" fully proved this point. Speaking of this, it seems to have been yesterday.
During Soviet rule, the community of old believers fled to Siberia to avoid persecution. During the Great Purge, a patrol team shot and killed Lekov’s brother in a village in the outer suburbs. Lakoff did not avenge his brother, but took his family and fled into the forest.
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1936,Lakoff took his wife, 9-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter, and continued to flee deep into the taiga. Until finally came to the current position. Here are two more children who have come to the world. For 42 years, the family has been living a primitive life here. The two children born later have never seen anyone outside of their families, and their knowledge of the outside world comes from the stories of their parents.
The main entertainment of the family is to tell dreams. Children know that there are countries and cities, as well as tall buildings. But this is an abstract concept for them, because the only textual materials they can access are the Gospels and the Bible. Mother used the gospel to teach them to read and write. The pen was sharpened with a birch stick, and the ink was replaced by the juice of honeysuckle .
Realistic version of survival in the wilderness
The biggest difficulty facing the Lakoff family every day is not the lack of the spiritual world, but the real survival problem.
The isolated life makes it extremely difficult for them to survive in the wilderness. The Lakoffs rely entirely on their own resources and try to use them to replace the few things they brought to the taiga. They replaced shoes with birch holsters. The clothes were patched and patched until they broke into fibers, and then replaced with burlap grown from seeds.
The Lakoffs took a humble spinning wheel . Unbelievably, they also brought the parts of the loom to the taiga. When they went deep into the wilderness, they moved them from one place to another, and experienced many long and arduous journeys.
Except for the loom parts, several kettles are their only metal products. But when the sun and rain corroded them, the Lakoff family could only replace them with containers made of birch bark. Since the birch container cannot be placed in a fire, cooking becomes extremely difficult. Their staple food is potato pancakes mixed with rye and hemp seeds.
Non-staple food mainly comes from local materials obtained in coniferous forests.There is a clear and cold stream beside the hut. In the woodland rich in larch, spruce , pine and birch trees, there are many bilberries and raspberries, and sometimes pine nuts just fall on the roof.
It can barely maintain when there is the blessing of heaven, but when encountering cold weather or other accidents, survival is always threatened. It was not until the end of the 1950s, when his son became an adult, that they captured animals for the first time for meat and skin. No guns, no bows and arrows, they can only dig traps or race over the mountains and race with their prey until the animals are exhausted.
Therefore, he has developed amazing endurance and can hunt barefoot in winter. Sometimes he returns to the cabin a few days later, carrying a young elk on his shoulders, sleeping in the frost of minus 40 degrees.
A blizzard in 1961 killed all their crops. In the spring of the following year, the Lakoff family can only eat leather shoes and birch containers. day. This reminds me of Guo Degang's cross talk: The bad news is that we are lost, and the good news is that there is some shit. But the Lakoff family didn't want to eat the bark so much. In order to keep the children alive, the mother was starved to death.
Just when their family thought they were bound to die, God sent them a fire of hope, and a grain of rye sprouted in their pea field. They added a fence around the pea field, and the whole family was carefully guarding it. When the rye was ripe, they harvested 18 seeds.
Try to accept new things
Scientists are very curious about what happened to the Lakoff family, but they are more sympathetic. They wanted to give Lakov some gifts, but he didn’t accept them.Only their scarce salt is left behind. Despite not accepting it, Lakoff was surprised by what they brought with them. What interested him most was the cellophane packaging. He wondered how the glass became paper, and it was so soft.
As the number of contacts increased, scientists found that they had underestimated the wisdom and abilities of the Lakoff family. For example, when talking about satellites, Lakoff said that when he saw some bright stars in the night sky swiftly across the sky, he thought that humans were launching flames similar to stars. The most surprising thing is that Lakoff's little daughter, who does not know what method she used, can actually record the time roughly and accurately without a calendar and watch.
A driller of the scientific expedition team began to try to help them grow crops with modern methods and use modern tools. Over time, Lakoff’s children also began to accept more new things. They eventually took away knives and forks, flashlights, grain, paper, pens, and ink from the camp. What they love most is the TV. The simple black and white pictures on the TV seem to have opened the door to a new world.
The tragic ending
Not every story has a beautiful ending, and it is perfect to describe what happened to the Lakoff family as a short-lived one. After the Lakov family re-established contact with the outside world, bad luck followed.
In the autumn of 1981, Lakoff's three children died one after another. Lakoff believes that they died because of infection with modern diseases that are not immune to them. After a doctor’s examination, it was confirmed that both his eldest daughter and younger son had kidney failure, which was probably caused by their long-term monotonous diet. The eldest son died of pneumonia, probably from someone who came to visit outside. The eldest son said at the end of his life that "a person lives for everything that God has given him. No matter what the situation is, he should not give up his family and faith."
I think this is the reason why the Lakoff family can survive for more than 40 years in isolation.
After the death of three children,The new friends persuaded Lakov to take his little daughter back to the village below the mountain, to find friends in the old community, and to take care of each other. But they refused, because Lakoff could no longer remember any of them.
One night in December 1988, Lakoff also went looking for his relatives, leaving only his little daughter guarding the dilapidated old house. Twenty-five years later, she is more than 70 years old and still lives alone in Abakan. Let us wish her peace in the rest of the year!
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