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All more people they decide to leave the dusty, bustling cities, reconsider their lifestyle and slow down: stop buying what they don’t need, feel the greatness of nature, do what they love. For what reasons do they choose hermitage, and what colors does it take on? new life when they distance themselves from consumer society and career hysteria - in our material.

Move to a farm to raise children in an environmentally friendly environment

The most compelling reasons for moving are the products of questionable quality offered in supermarkets; dysfunctional ecological situation which undermines the child’s health. And the main thing they want to protect children from is the values ​​of a consumer society.

Andrei and Alla Tokarev swapped life in the capital for running a peasant farm when they had children. They felt that the atmosphere of the metropolis was harmful for children.

The family decided to move to farm and feed their children healthy food. Young people did not strive for absolute isolation; the lifestyle of rural people would suit them quite well. But I didn’t want the children to see alcoholics, so I had to choose a remote farm.

Here children breathe clean air, eat natural foods, see nature, and are active and take part in household chores. The absence of neighbors nearby allows you not to worry that animals will enter someone else’s territory and trample the garden. The family lives from selling cheese products, and Alla has also maintained a remote job.

The topic of school education remains controversial. There are 2 opinions among downshifters - some believe that children need to learn, and main reason- the opportunity to choose your destiny in the future. Their opponents question the idea that education is worth the effort and is beneficial, since the education system draws a person into a cycle of tedious bustle and constant consumption, from which downshifters flee. In any case, master it school curriculum, settling in a deep forest is quite possible. Children junior classes They teach remotely, and high school students have access to such a form of education as external studies.

Leave the “anthill” of glass and concrete, but remain in the epicenter of communication

An example of this is former lawyer Yuri Alekseev, who settled in a dugout near the Yaroslavl highway. Here he reads, listens to audiobooks, receives guests, does book crossing, and creates content for a video blog.

Yuri did not set a goal to distance himself from society - he willingly receives guests who strive to find out what hardships a hermit needs to overcome. How to wash, where to get clothes, food, water, how to provide a wireless Internet connection and charge your laptop? Not willing to answer technical issues Yuri, however, does not get irritated, but speaks with enthusiasm about politics and creative self-realization. And he accepts gifts without hesitation - some will bring beans, some will bring cookies - everything will be useful on the farm. Argues that a person needs a life full of positive impressions and useful activities, requires very few resources. To build a dugout you need several weeks and some building materials from the forest, and solar panels that produce 300 watts per hour help charge your gadgets.

Yuri is now not just a hermit, but a media personality with a YouTube channel, shares life hacks of a professional downshifter and does not hide his oppositional political views.

When nature and adventure attract, but people repel

This one is hardy and clever man lived in the Australian jungle for more than half a century - without contact with the outside world, friends and family, without political beliefs And civic position. Mikhail’s sports talents were noted back in school years, when he set 7 new records and was recognized as one of Sydney's best athletes. But in the team, Mikhail always felt like a stranger, so he preferred life in the jungle to public life. In the remote tropics of Australia, he fought with crocodiles, overcame enormous distances, and was treated natural means And physical exercise, not knowing better life for myself.

Only at the age of 85, Mikhail Fomenko felt that he did not have the strength to remain outside civilization, and settled in a nursing home.

Terror in defense of nature. How a hermit became a serial killer

American mathematics teacher Theodore Kaczynski from California (University of Berkeley) moved into a hut because he considered industrialization and technological progress to be destructive processes for nature. This man was extremely distinguished from childhood high intelligence, mathematics was especially easy for him. After finishing school as an external student at the age of 16, he was accepted into Harvard University.

After completing his education, Theodore Kaczynski became the youngest teacher at the prestigious educational institution. To the surprise of those around him, for no apparent reason or prerequisite, Theodore Kaczynski stops teaching activities and settles in solitude in the mountains of Montana. In reality, it was a protest aimed at consumer lifestyle and technological innovation.

Theodore lived in isolation without electricity, communications, or sewerage for about 6 years before he began working to protect nature.

The scientist created bombs from improvised materials and sent them to scientific centers and universities in the country. So Kaczynski tried to stop progress. Kaczynski's explosive devices hit the University of Michigan, Yale University, on board an American Airlines plane, in computer stores, and in the offices of scientists and officials. In total, there are 16 terrorist attacks, 3 dead, 23 injured in 25 years of life outside civilization.

The radical environmentalist was arrested in 1996, he was sentenced to 4 life sentences, but there was a prospect and death penalty. He is currently serving his sentence in a maximum security prison in Colorado without the possibility of parole.

Former drug dealer leads a solitary monastic life on a cliff

Previously, there were ruins of a temple here, but thanks to the asceticism of the monk, a functioning church was built - Maximus the Confessor.

He made the decision about such a life after leaving prison. Maxim's youth was far from righteous. Alcohol abuse and drug sales led to young man to jail. When his sentence ended, Maxim got a job as a crane operator, but soon felt that he wanted to serve God. He believes that height brings him closer to the Almighty.

Several decades ago, the world learned about the last of the Lykov family of hermits. Many people are still confused today why Agafya refuses to move from the taiga to people[/GO].

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In Russia, hundreds, or even thousands of people leave the world to live in the forest. As a rule, hermits build their Utopia there. Three stories of such hermits - a former special forces soldier, seven Gordinko-Kuleshaite, the Antipin family, as well as a photo gallery of hermits made by photographer Danila Tkachenko.

The most famous hermits in Russia are considered to be the Lykov family of Old Believers, who fled to the taiga from Soviet power, which they considered the incarnation of the Antichrist. Today only Agafya Lykova is alive; she still lives in the forest, although she accepts help from people.

But hundreds, if not thousands, of Russians still go to live in the forest. Each has its own story of exodus, but, as a rule, all have an ideological or ethical motive. Today, to most of them, the Antichrist seems to be not just or not so much Russian authorities, as much as the City and the people (who, they believe, are also the product of an anti-human system).

Here are three stories of Russian hermits who zero years described in the press. Photographer Danila Tkachenko, in turn, made a gallery of Russians who went to live in the forest. This photo gallery is featured on lensculture.com. These photos are below in the text.

Hermit Special Forces

A former special forces soldier settled in a forest in the Amur region, tired of working in law enforcement agencies. The hermit has been living in the taiga for 10 years.

Local mushroom pickers accidentally stumbled upon the dugout of a special forces hermit. They reported to the police that in the taiga 110 kilometers from the nearest settlement a person lives alone.

The former military man has no intention of returning to the people. According to Victor F., he likes life in the deep forest. Meanwhile, he has a special forces school and many years of service behind him.

There are no problems with food - military training still makes itself felt. Well, I developed a passion for hunting back in school,” says Victor. - Sometimes, of course, I go down to the village for bread, salt and clothes. The residents still remember me and exchange everything I need for fresh meat.

Victor F. never dreamed of living in the taiga. IN native village In the Magdagachi region, everyone knew and loved the ex-military man. But one day, having gone hunting, the man realized that he could no longer part with the silence of the forest.

I replaced the usual bustle of life with a light heart. He left his home and went into the forest as a hermit,” recalls Victor.

Victor chose a place a hundred kilometers from the nearest village. He built a dugout so that it would not be cold in winter and hot in summer. In the cold weather, the owner of a modest home is warmed by a stone stove. For lunch there is always fresh game and ice-cold spring water on the table.

Hermits - the Gordienko-Kulešitej family

The nearest village is 120 km away. Alexander Gordienko and Regina Kuleshaite have been living in the wild forest for more than 10 years, and, apparently, have no intention of returning to the big world.

Get there to an ordinary person to the place where a strange family lives is already a test of strength. We easily covered half the distance in a minibus, and when the foreign car got stuck in a rut broken by timber trucks, we had to transfer to a KrAZ. Despite its super cross-country ability, it kept settling in the snow. I had to pick up a shovel and rake out meter-long snowdrifts. And so on off-road - half a day. As a result, kilometer after kilometer we reached the place where a narrow path leads from the half-broken road into unknown wilds. Two kilometers on foot - and in a crevice between two hills we come across a small hut.

There is no lock on the door due to its complete uselessness. There is no one to protect yourself from here except from predators.

After knocking, we immediately go inside. Naturally, no guests were expected. The owner Alexander was doing something shamanic on a dilapidated stove. Two kids were frolicking on the floor. Seeing the strangers, the children immediately, like wolf cubs, dived under the bed.

Both Alexander and Regina have lived in this wilderness for more than twenty years. At first they fought alone. The couple met already in the taiga. Alexander is 12 years older than Regina. She is 27, he is almost 40. Each has their own path to this jungle.

A girl was born in Latvia. When she was not even a month old, her mother came to the Kuytunsky district.

Our father left us, and my mother decided to move to Siberia,” she recalls. - We settled in the village of Moloi, not far from Kuitun.

When Regina was 12 years old, her mother died. In order to somehow feed herself, the girl got a job at a local state farm picking berries. Finding another job in these parts is almost impossible. She began to live in a small state farm hut. While the enterprise was staying afloat, she shared it with the same collectors of forest gifts. But then the state farm collapsed, and in the mid-90s the girl was left alone. Everyone left the village, and all that was left of the houses was the foundations.

Regina did not dare to go to the city and settled in a hut deep in the taiga.

Alexander was also born far from Irkutsk region. For more than twenty years he lived in the Moscow region. After the army he worked as a driver. But one day I read an advertisement that a cooperative in Siberia needed workers to pick berries and nuts.

They promised good money, so I went,” he says.

The cooperative did not last long - it went bankrupt. As a result, after working there for several years, Alexander was left in the taiga without money and any opportunity to return back. Perhaps he would have perished in the endless expanses of the Siberian wilderness, but he met Regina completely by accident. His base was not far from her hut. Without a wedding and registration in the registry office, they began to live together.

The newlyweds did not go back to the people.

They say it wasn't very difficult. There were, of course, lean years, but supplies and hunting saved the day. There are a lot of goats and hares in the area. There are wapiti and, of course, bears.

And look how they live there in the village,” says Sasha. - No better than us, only there is light in the houses, and then they turn it off all the time.

About what's going on in big world, the hermits find out with the help of a small transistor. They haven’t seen TV for several years, and they don’t remember what program they watched last.

“What’s there to see,” Alexander waves his hand resignedly. - One by one. To be honest, I don’t really care what happens there. There is no war - and okay.

Of all the blessings of civilization in the house, there are only a bed and stools. All this remains from state farm times. Iron plates, spoons and mugs.

The children have neither toys nor books. Clothes, apparently, are also scarce. When we entered the house, the youngest Seryozhka was running naked.

Hermits - the Antipin family

Anna is now 36 years old. She fell in love with Victor when she was 16 and he was just over thirty. In 1982, a wanderer came to the village of Korotenkaya from the Lena River. Wade through wild forests without weapons, alone. The man's name was Viktor Granitovich. I asked to spend the night at Anya’s mother’s house. Yes, he stayed there. And then suddenly he took a closer look at her wife’s young daughter. She listened with wide eyes to the tale about the Factory. And when she became pregnant from “dad,” he invited her to go into the forest together. Forever.

The Antipins began their search for the Factory in 1983. They went two hundred kilometers deep into the Evenki taiga and settled in a hut. In those wilds, Anna gave birth to her first child. The baby died.

And the second child too. Only the third survived. My father always took birth himself. He cut the umbilical cord, he did it deftly.

The girl was given a cute name - Olenya.

We named her in honor of the deer who saved all of our lives. Winter was ending and supplies were running out. But my father did not acquire a gun in order to go hunting. He said: “You only need to take what nature itself gives. But a person can only sometimes use traps and sticks.” Because of hunger, my milk began to disappear. And suddenly a herd of deer passed right next to our hut. The father managed to kill one deer. I fed my daughter chewed meat all spring.

There are four children in the family - twelve-year-old brother Vitya, eight-year-old Misha and three-year-old Alesya. Olenya knows how to catch hazel grouse with a boomerang, carves utensils from wood, and is an excellent tanner of skins. He is a great specialist in Deer furs. With their mother, they sewed hats from moles, badgers, hares, and squirrels. For dogs - kanchi (fur socks) and shaggy (mittens with the fur facing out).
The taiga girl believes that the souls of dead people inhabit blades of grass, birds, and animals.

Our kitten understood thoughts. Just when I think: “Go away, you can’t sit here!” - He will get up and leave. It was someone's soul that moved into him.

In 1987, Victor convinced his wife that they needed to go to Yakutia: the coveted corner would definitely be found there.

Almost died then. At the Bolshoi Sekochambi rapids, our boat was covered by a huge wave. “We somehow swam out,” Anna recalls. - But everything that was with us was drowned. We climbed out of the water, in which ice floes were still floating. I remember the snow was so fluffy. We climbed a steep hill. We rested. Strange, they didn’t even catch a cold.

And in Yakutia, the restless Victor did not find his Factory. The Antipins lived for two years in a Yakut village, among people. Then they fled again to the taiga, to the Taishet district of the Irkutsk region. Here Victor had to briefly sacrifice his principles and work with “these creatures” side by side. He got a job at Khimleshoz to harvest timber and resin. The family was allocated a plot of land in the Biryusinskaya taiga. But a year later the enterprise collapsed.

The forestry enterprise began to remove workers from the taiga. Only Antipin refused to evacuate: “I found my Factory!”

1. The happiness of life is in its simplicity.

2. Man, strive for nature and you will be healthy.

3. Illness is a signal to change your lifestyle.

Viktor Granitovich carved these main commandments of his life above the entrance to his taiga dwelling. And he persistently repeated them to the children. His family huddled in a tiny old balka (hunting temporary hut). The total living space is eight square meters.

Why didn’t Victor build a house? There are so many forests around.

Father said: we had to be content with little.

They slept like this: on the right side of the bed - a mother with small children, on the left - a father. The eldest son was swinging in a hammock, and Olena’s bed was replaced by a bear skin at the entrance. The table was a rusty bathtub, which was brought out of the entryway when they sat down to dinner.

Fried hazel grouse, stewed capercaillie, hare meat. Mushrooms, berries, wild garlic. It's just hard in winter. They went hungry often. I even had to fry burdock roots. No alcohol, no tea, no coffee. To feel good, I just need to eat bread.

Viktor Granitovich believed that they were finally living ideally. Anna, by the way, too.

Victor called his escape from civilization “separation.” However, it was not possible to completely break away from civilization. Still, sometimes I had to go out to people in the nearest village - for flour, clothes, newspapers.

And he said to the children: “Only I can go to people, I’m strong, I can endure anything.”

Ultimately, wife Anna could not stand it and, leaving her husband alone, went out with four children to the people in the village of Serebrovo, Taishet district.

The first time I went out into the village, among the people, it seemed that they were going to send me alone in a rocket into space - I was so worried, so afraid of people. Of the events, two things struck me most: the collapse Soviet Union and the terrorist attack in New York on September 11. It was so scary to read.

Their father Victor did not want to return to civilization. A year after his family abandoned him, he died of hunger.

An unusual family lives near the village of Podlesnoye in the Zhytomyr region. They completely changed their way of life, they left the everyday circle of existence and went to nature.

The Siryks live in a three-room adobe hut with a thatched roof: Ivan (52 years old), Victoria and Stepan (12 years old). There is a stove burning in the central room, the floor is covered with straw, the entire area is in small rooms of a couple of square meters.
According to Victoria, the family only spends the winter in the house and spends most of their time in the workshops.

The hayloft serves as a bedroom, over which a glass roof was built. Thanks to this know-how, the family has the opportunity all year round see starry sky. The number of stars was a discovery for them. Indeed, among the city lights, the sky loses its richness.

They also have the opportunity to observe their winged neighbors - birds, mice. They also refused to use the toilet, because there is a forest nearby...
The idea of ​​leaving life for the roots came to successful Moscow artists eight years ago.

Then Ivan was filming videos, illustrating books, making porcelain furniture... They had ideas and perspectives. But the couple decided to visit the Caucasian dolmens. They even took our eight-month-old son on this trip. After visiting these megalithic structures and it was decided to start living the right way.

They abandoned the achievements of the information age. Stopped watching TV and using the phone and computer. They are not attracted to the idea of ​​watching online or downloading TV series or music. Although in some ways the family resembles the heroes of the series American Dad, except that they don’t have an alien. Although the problems are very similar...

They started with vegetarianism, then switched to consuming only vegetables and fruits, a raw food diet. Next they plan to switch to prana nutrition. They believe it is possible. Victoria says that she has already managed to almost grow two teeth.

Their diet is explained by the desire to consume live food, which remains until heated to 40 degrees. They eat a lot of mushrooms, including fly agarics. Mushrooms are eaten in any form - raw, fried, dried, etc.

Victoria and Ivan have two sons - Stepan, who lives at home, and Timofey (22 years old) in an apartment in Zhitomir.
The youngest, Stepashka, goes to school once a month, already in the 4th grade.

As it turned out, he has no friends, because the children laugh at the boy’s hair and generally ignore the child... By the way, the boy believes that his father taught him a lot.

In the comments Fteshagaud says: “To be honest, I never really understood such people.”
What does he need Hermit answers: “Yes, they are normal people, 200 years ago the majority of the population lived like this, so they live like this, and their children don’t need civilization in order to earn money and give birth to children, because before they gave birth and got married without city show-offs and benefits. It’s just us we live in an artificial world, and they are precisely in the present. It is we who will die without a store and the Internet, but they will survive.
Yes, and we live for what - has anyone ever wondered if you have a specific goal? (I don’t mean the goal is to earn money so that everyone I know can wipe their noses, or cool car, or a country cottage).

And another pair of city hermits: the Shakhov family.

The Shakhov family lives in Makeevka. They met one day in 1986. They met at a meeting evening at the Artyomovsky Music Center. school, we started talking common topics And…

The subtlety is that he already had the experience of numerous hikes in the mountains, encounters with UFOs, membership in the astronomical society, read a sea of ​​books on philosophy, and his own poems. He was a tuner and restorer. She was a student pianist. He was 52, she was 19. Ufology connected them for 21 years.

The Shakhovs' house is hung with paintings, something garish. “Infinity,” not drawn by people, was led by the hand of the Designer, according to them. There is a piano in the center of the house mid-19th century.

Larisa’s parents have never come to terms with it, although they visit their children, bring vegetables and canned food. The Shakhovs do not trust their ancestors and test their products on cats.

They go grocery shopping once a month and spend Anatoly’s entire pension. They eat very little, so they have enough money.

In general, the existence of this unusual family was discovered quite by accident - when a fire started and firefighters arrived. Then their observatory burned down, icons and library were damaged.

And the firefighters were surprised by a couple with unusual hair.
It’s a similar story with hair and hygiene in general. 10 years ago the water supply dried up. They didn't fix it. They began to collect rainwater, drink it, cook with it.

In general, they have set up a regime of strict water saving, and therefore they do not bathe, do not wash, and do not wash their hair. And not only do they not wash them, but they also don’t cut them. Anatoly wraps his beard around himself. Larisa stopped scratching her braid at the third meter. Now the hair is a complete tangle.

By the way, clothes are also not washed until they dry off, just like that on the body. What is characteristic is that there is no talk of any doctors. Either the immunity has developed or healthy eating, no bad habits...
They believe that all of us on Earth are just guests from other universes. Built by them a complex system relationships, transitions of the universe. They live in their own world, believing that everyone is immortal...