They were from Moscow, but over time their immune system became weaker and weaker because it was not exercised. When they finally were exposed to the outside world, they started dying off.
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Thanks for sharing this interesting story I had never heard about before.
I recently learned of a similar story that related the story of some missionaries who flew into a jungle in the 1950s to make contact with an isolated tribe. The missionaries had worked to slowly earn the trust of the tribe over several repeated distant contacts, but when they eventually decided to chance closer contact it resulted in tragic violence... although the families of the deceased were later able to establish a lasting contact with the tribe, and eventually even to live with them.
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Originally posted by c1steve: They were from Moscow, but over time their immune system became weaker and weaker because it was not exercised. When they finally were exposed to the outside world, they started dying off.
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That may have been true in the case of Dmitry's death but, based on this excerpt from the article, I don't think it holds true for the others' deaths. It appears that decades of their harsh starvation diet took a toll on their organs.
Excerpt from the article (my emphasis added in bold):
Perhaps the saddest aspect of the Lykovs’ strange story was the rapidity with which the family went into decline after they re-established contact with the outside world. In the fall of 1981, three of the four children followed their mother to the grave within a few days of one another. According to Peskov, their deaths were not, as might have been expected, the result of exposure to diseases to which they had no immunity. Both Savin and Natalia suffered from kidney failure, most likely a result of their harsh diet. But Dmitry died of pneumonia, which might have begun as an infection he acquired from his new friends.
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Originally posted by sigmonkey: I'd fly to Turks and Caicos with live ammo falling out of my pockets before getting within spitting distance of NJ with a firearm.
A Russian-American friend of mine has explained a bit to me about the "Old Believers". Patriarch Nikon of Moscow made changes to the rituals and texts of Russian Orthodox Church, so that it and the Greek Orthodox church would have minimum discrepancies between them. However the Old Believers felt that this was blasphemous, and fought mightily to stick to their old ways.
Sometimes the Old Believers would lock them selves in a church, which was then set on fire by the other Christians. Other times they would lock themselves inside a church, and burn themselves to death rather change their ways.
Centuries later many of them fled Russia as a group. First they went to Los Angeles (of all places), but left L.A. because the kids were too influenced by modern society. They then settled near the southern end of South America. Eventually they migrated again, this time to Homer Alaska. That is where many are now.This message has been edited. Last edited by: c1steve,
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Impressive. I would have folded even before the edge of the forest.
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This is a very interesting article; the struggles of the Old Believers against the established church, and especially the reformer Peter the Great is an important part of the history, culture, and art of Russia.
This is a painting depicting the burning of the "protopope" Avakkum
And this is a famous painting of the arrest of Old Believer Boyarina Morozova. She defiantly is crossing herself with two fingers, rather than three as required by Patriarch Nikon's reforms:
Some of you know that I lived in Siberia for a year and worked there after that. But it was in southern and western Siberia, far, far from the taiga. I did find Russian art reflecting its history to be fascinating if harsh.
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Originally posted by sjtill: Some of you know that I lived in Siberia for a year and worked there after that. But it was in southern and western Siberia, far, far from the taiga.
