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"I heard fear in her voice"
The hermit Agafya Lykova urgently asked for help from the "big land". She called the Krasnoyarsk filmmakers Andrei Grishakov and said that the reserves were over. The authorities of the Kemerovo region organized an expedition to the Tashtagolsky district of Kuzbass, delivering Lykova everything necessary. Who is afraid, how the most famous hermit of the country is treated and how the pension receives a pension in the material of the correspondent "Siberia. Reali".
"I heard fear in her voice"
- I woke up from the bear’s breathing, in horror, it seemed to me that the bear was already at my head. And Agafya said in a trembling voice: "Andrey, Andrey, wake up, bear, he is nearby." I shot, and more that night we did not see him. And the second night went the same. He followed us. And this animal fear in the eyes and in the voice of Agafia I know. Therefore, when she called me and said that it was over, I recognized notes of fear in her voice.
On December 10, 2018, Agafya Lykova called the Krasnoyarsk journalist and documentary Andrei Grishakov on the satellite phone and said that food supplies would not be enough until the end of December. The hermit managed to say a few words, after which the connection broke off. The phone Grishakov brought Lykova in 2016. And in 2015, the Krasnoyarsk accompanied her hermit, who went to put the crosses on the graves of his mother, sisters and brothers. For three nights in a row the bear walked nearby, people smell it.
- In these places where the Lykovs are buried, cedars are already growing. They put three crosses, one on a double grave. And I shot it all, and immediately told her: "Agafya, I will not help you, I will shoot and then tell people." After this campaign, she said that she fulfilled the main duty of her life.
Her potato never ends. She plants her for the future, like our grandmothers
From childhood, Grishakov dreamed of seeing how the Lykov family lives. In 2010, he first went to the hull of the hermit. Then they planted and dug up potatoes together, after which the Krasnoyarsk began to take off the life of Agafia on the camera. The journalist lived in a borrow for two to three weeks. Several documentary films are now at the installation stage.
- Her potato never ends. She plants her for the future, like our grandmothers. When she called, she meant that the food for goats and chicken, who run in countless quantities ended. And I also think that she called to the rescue, focusing not on the fact that help would come tomorrow. Because help can come to spring.
"Taiga is her house"
According to Grishakov, it became more difficult to get to Agafye on the water: after flooding on the Bolshaya Abakan River, in 2013, the channel washed away, so congestion began to form. Sometimes the hermit is visited by inspectors of the Khakassky reserve. When Aman Tuleyev was the governor of Kuzbass, a helicopter periodically flew to Lykova. After the call of the hermit, Grishakov made a post on social networks. The next day, a delegation went to Agafier, led by the new head of the Kemerovo region, Sergei Tsivilev.
- Previously, helicopters flew more often, but now for it in winter - this is like in the desert. No one. When the governor flew, we decided that it was a good opportunity, we began to collect folk money. I threw a cry on the Internet, left the details of the map of the man who lives in Tashtagol. Collected the amount of up to 20 thousand. They purchased everything necessary, I think, by the end of winter, she will be enough, ”says Grishakov.
For the collected money, they bought spare parts for a chainsaw, spare parts for a gas generator, meat, several boxes of vegetables and fruits (grenades and grapes that Agafia loves). The governor gave the hermit a puppy, and also brought 10 bales of hay, 350 kg of compound feed for goats, a supply of cereals, etc.
“Together with everyone, a doctor from Tashtagol flew, he examined Agafue Karpovna,” says Dmitry Ivanov , a journalist from Novosibirsk, who visited Zaimka. -Something with her hand, yes. On her right hand she has any swelling, or joints hurt. But something hurts. She brought her a first -aid kit with medicines, among which there were warming ointments. As the doctor said, they should help. Otherwise, it seemed to me, she looked quite cheerful. This is the fourth time already there at work, it seemed to me that she was glad to guests.
In the fall of 2016, Lykov was taken to the Tastagol hospital. The day before, she called the "large land" and said that "her legs were taken away."
With exacerbation of osteochondrosis, the hermit lay in the hospital for several days. According to Dmitry Ivanov, 74-year-old Lykova prefers folk remedies, and treats pharmacy drugs with suspicion. For example, the hermit refuses to accept Corvalol, but believes that the bark of larch helps if you apply it to the sore spot.
The bear constantly annoy her. Sometimes in winter, if it does not hibernate, but more often in the summer
During the visit of Governor Tsivilev, Agafya Karpovna complained that she was hindered again by the bear, whom the hermit scares away with firecrackers.
“She lives on a mountain slope over a small river Erinat,” says Dmitry Ivanov. “And the bear constantly annoy her.” Sometimes in winter, if he did not hibernate, but more often in the summer. She has several stories related to the bear when he in search of food comes to their borrow. It was such that he was knocking his face out the window. He sat right in the yard. Agafia has different devices for the fight against bears. For example, firecrackers. Not large, as they like to launch for the New Year, but small, small flashes. And she scares the bear.
During the call, Grishakov near Agafya was her neighbor George. The Old Believer Church, with which Lykova maintains a connection since 2013, regularly sends the novice hermit. After the death of the hunter and former geologist Erofei Sedov in 2015, Lykov lived for some time alone.
- The church sends a person not even to help, but so that he lives next to him simply. But people from the "big land" are unlikely to live there all their lives, so for them this is such a long trip. I think she is not abandoned there. If a person has lived all his life in the taiga, then this is her house. A couple of years ago I was there, and we took it by a helicopter from the hospital to Zaimka. And then she was invited to stay in Kilinsk in the Tashtagol district, but she did not agree. Because she was born in the taiga, says Ivanov.
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- When Grishakov began to collect, they collected fruits, vegetables, then, another and matches. I say, Andryukha, why matches, she has her matches! Croilus is a special fire, with which a spark is obtained. I first got to Lykova 40 years ago, and then it seemed to me that I went into the past for 300-400 years.
Her family died of simple flu. They grew up in the taiga, in a completely sterile environment
Abaza photographer Nikolai Proveletsky first came to the borrow in the 70s. He came up with the Old Believers with a hidden camera: the operator pretended that he was filming a person standing aside, but in fact the lens was directed to the Lykov family.
- They did not allow shooting, and photographs for them were considered a great sin. For example, when Agafier brought photos of relatives, she had no right to bring them into the house. It was believed that the house should have only "God's Liko", that is, an icon. Of course, over the years, life has changed. Previously, let's say they baked bread from home -made flour: 50% millet, 50% potatoes. You know, her family died of simple flu. They grew up in the taiga, in a completely sterile environment, so they did not form immunity. Agafia, apparently, is stronger. She calls the goat "Emanukha", and when he says "Lani Winter was snowy," this means "last year the winter was snowy."
Agafya Lykova does not receive a pension since 2011, she has no passport and special pension account. In November 2017, during a direct line, ex-governor of Khakassia, Viktor Zimin, forbade volunteers to fly to Agafier Lykova. Zimin noted that Lykova "is not a patriarch of the Old Believer Church and has no status." According to him, "Grandmother Agafya and so the load is great for many."
“My mother, the kingdom of heaven, was always indignant and said: my son, it’s unfair, I worked for the state all my life, helicopters do not fly to me, and these people did not work for the state for a day, and also hid from the war,” said the former head of Khakassia .
Nikolai Proveletsky does not consider the Lykov fugitives: they did not hide from the war, but lived in the taiga long before she began.
- In general, Agafya is a man of Khakassia, and Kuzbass helps her. This is wrong somehow, ”Nikolai Provetsky is sure. - Although helping is good. Zimin should not say that. Many people are angry that they help her. But Agafya is a child of nature. She lives in the taiga, and we invade her territory. The state creates reserves, reserves. Help moose, marals, but why not? The ancestors of the Lykov, who were born and raised in this very taiga, retained their religious beliefs, faith. Agafya is the last. And in all centuries, such people were persecuted. Agafya Lykova lives in the center of the reserve, she is part of the nature surrounding it, the Lykovs - a particle of history, which at one time did not want to study and consider. During life, you must help, and not erect expensive monuments after death. In the state, in the first place there should be a person of any religion, any beliefs, any age, wretched, sick, is it old - he is a person, part of the state.