Secrets of Siberian hermit (15 photos)

Sometimes it seems that the days are long gone hermits and civilization fully absorb modern man. It comes to mind except that Lykov family, but they escaped into the forest from the Stalinist repression in the days when the world was very different, and the man was not so much cut off from the earth and nature.
Once Victor, refusing to give his name, he was working on a barge in the Krasnoyarsk river port, but in 47 years, decided that the modern world is steeped in vanity and vice, not for him. Then he dropped everything and went away in a remote Siberian forest to seek solitude and harmony. There he settled in a small hut on the bank of the Yenisei River, which has been ten years serves as the home of hermit.



his days he spends in the daily household chores, reading the Bible and contemplate nature. Subsistence it is fish, which is rich in the Yenisei, berries and mushrooms growing in the local woods. To come back to civilization, he does not intend to.


Former boatman Victor, who declined to give his last name, looks out the window of his wooden hut in the forest not far from Krasnoyarsk.


Victor reads the Bible.


Preparing firewood.


Victor prepares fish for salting.