Hermitage, the conscious withdrawal from people for the sake of complete solitude, the renunciation of all the benefits of civilization, has always been of interest to mere mortals.
Man is created to live among his own kind. Sociologists believe that without society, friends, family and loved ones, the inevitable degradation of homo sapiens occurs. History proves the opposite - hermits became the founders religious teachings, by the excellent authors literary works. But there were some exceptions.
The ten most famous hermits are as follows:
1. Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
Years of life: approximately 7th - 5th centuries BC.
Life before hermitage: Crown Prince one of the princely states of India. He was diligently protected by his father from any knowledge of human suffering, received an excellent education, and got married.
Reason for leaving: Secretly leaving the palace, he walked around the city. He was shocked to see four sufferers (a beggar old man, a sick man, a rotting corpse, a starving hermit). He left home to search for a way to free people from suffering.
5 years, of which 49 days in a state of meditation.
Result: He created a path, an ethical system, following which you can free yourself from suffering and achieve complete enlightenment (nirvana). He laid the foundation for Buddhism - a world religion.
2. Jesus of Nazareth (Christ)
Years of life: 1st century BC - 1st century AD.
Life before hermitage: The son of a carpenter and a shepherd's daughter in Palestine. He was distinguished by his phenomenal memory and diligence in studying Scripture. When Jesus was 30 years old, he began to preach in the name of the Lord.
Reason for leaving: Fulfilling the Will of God, resisting temptations, understanding your Mission.
: 40 days.
Result: He created a teaching that was spread throughout the world by his 11 disciples and one neophyte (the Apostle Paul), and atoned for the sins of mankind by accepting death on the Cross.
3. Muhammad Ibn Abdallah (prophet)
Years of life: 571-632.
Life before hermitage: Belongs to an influential Arabian tribe. The father died before the birth of Muhammad, the mother died when the future prophet was 5 years old. He was brought up by his relatives. Muhammad was married to a rich widow, much older than him. He was engaged in escorting caravans.
Reason for leaving: The internal need for solitude and reflection on the world, the will of the Almighty.
Time spent away from civilization: one month.
4. Henry David Thoreau
Years of life: 1817-1862.
Life before hermitage: Active public figure, fighter for the abolition of slavery in the United States, poet, publicist, thinker. He actively promoted life in harmony with nature.
Reason for leaving: setting up an experiment, protesting against the emerging consumer society.
Time spent away from civilization: 2 years, 2 months and 2 days.
Result: wrote his most famous book"Walden, or Life in the Woods."
5. Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin
Years of life: 1848-1903.
Life before hermitage: A successful stockbroker, Gauguin became interested in painting from a young age. Gradually, he devoted more and more time to creativity, and finally finally devoted his life to painting.
Reason for leaving: Lack of recognition, poverty, depression.
Time spent away from civilization: 12 years old.
Result: Created his own in Tahiti best works, which are included in the list of the greatest pictorial masterpieces of the planet.
6. Theodore John Kaczynski (Unabomber)
Years of life: born in 1942.
Life before hermitage: A child prodigy, he graduated from university at the age of 20, and a doctor of mathematics at the age of 26. The youngest professor at Berkeley University, a brilliant scientist.
Reason for leaving: depressive psychosis, fear of modern technologies.
Time spent away from civilization: 24 years.
Result: sentenced to life imprisonment for terrorism: mailing homemade bombs to US universities and airlines in order to “stop the progress that is killing nature.”
7. Mafasumi Nagasaki
Years of life: born in 1937.
Life before hermitage: A successful photographer, he worked for fashion magazines and entertainment weeklies in Japan. Retired due to old age.
Reason for leaving: Reluctance to live in a nursing home.
Time spent away from civilization: 24 years old (hermitage continues).
Result: Lives on a desert island with no source drinking water, buys food once a week on a neighboring island. Happy.
8. Maxim Kavtaradze
Years of life: born in 1951.
Life before hermitage: A crane operator by profession, Maxim became interested in drugs, sold heroin for a free dose, and was sentenced to a long prison term.
Reason for leaving: Redemption.
Time spent away from civilization: 23 years old (hermitage continues).
Result: He took monastic vows and lives in solitude on the rocky Katskhi “pillar” in Georgia. Accepts former drug addicts and supports them spiritually.
9. Timothy Treadwell
Years of life: 1957-2009.
Life before hermitage: Born in New York, he was fond of sports. In college, he fell into depression after he was not approved for a role in a youth series. He started drinking and using drugs.
Reasons for leaving:“escape from drugs”, the desire to fill life with meaning.
Time spent away from civilization: three months a year for 13 years.
Result: Killed and eaten by Grizzly bears (which he protected from destruction) in Alaska.
10. Christopher Johnson McCandless (Supertramp)
Years of life: 1968-1992.
Life before hermitage: He grew up in a prosperous and wealthy family, with a tough character and idealistic views. After graduating from university, he went on a trip to the USA. I learned to get by without money. Left for Alaska.
Reason for leaving: Contempt for the consumer society.
Time spent away from civilization: 113 days.
Result: got poisoned by poisonous berries and died.
The most famous hermits, left from civilization updated: June 29, 2017 by: mila ognevich
This section contains stories of the destinies of hermits. In our time, and indeed as before, hermits were treated ambiguously. Basically they were considered defective and did not understand how they could live like this. But they live, they live despite difficulties and hardships. Sometimes it seems that difficulties do not bother them, but on the contrary, behind difficulties they hide from the world, from people.
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Belarusian hermit farmers
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They became hermits from a hard life
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Hermit Alexey Lebedev
The former policeman left his job, his wife and went to live in nature as a hermit. At first it was difficult to say “Bruce” - that’s what Alexey Lebedev was nicknamed for his resemblance to the famous actor, but gradually everything got better. The hermit has his own house, bathhouse, and garden>
Kursk hermit lives in the forest for 12 years
The furnished dwelling is located in a remote thicket. A hut, a huge woodpile of firewood, a fire pit with a stove grate, even something like a shower, and all around there are fancy wooden figures. One resembles the head of a deer with antlers, the other the face of a hare, the third the profile of a cow 
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I hid in the forest for 10 years
The killer lived for ten years in a dugout he built with his own hands. The life of this hermit, if I may say so, is interesting, but whatever it was, he had everything thought out and used in everyday life, and he even invented electricity for radio and light 
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Fate and hermitage
Fifty years ago, having left people, 77-year-old Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvyrkov did not think that the modern Kerzhensky Nature Reserve would appear in the place of his hermitage. Formally, Shvyrkov’s place of residence does not exist; the former village of Chernozerye no longer exists 
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Live as a hermit
At first Victor lived in a real badger hole, turned into a dugout. Spent seven whole years inside. But it became dusty and crowded there, so I moved to a new building. The current home is a rectangular building devoid of architectural delights 
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> Zhytomyr hermits went to live in nature, closer to silence, to live the way they want. They most They spend time in self-improvement and sleep in the open air in the summer. The head of the family built a clay hut in which they live
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
At first glance, the presence of children is a factor that does not contribute to hermitism. The younger generation needs socialization, sport sections and creative workshops for development. But family downshifters who abandoned their careers in big city and those who moved to the farm with children have a different opinion.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, are eating natural products, see nature, move actively, taking part in economic affairs. 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 remains controversial school education. 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. Primary school children are taught remotely, while high school students have access to a form of education called external study.
Leave the “anthill” of glass and concrete, but remain in the epicenter of communication
Not every hermitage involves renouncing social connections. Some downshifters, on the contrary, leave their offices to expand their social circle, meet people and do something inspiring that they love.
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? Yuri is not willing to answer technical questions, but does not get annoyed, 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 gadgets can be charged solar panels, delivering 300 watts per hour.
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
There are radicals among downshifters who choose habitats that local residents consider unsuitable or extremely dangerous. These include Mikhail Fomenko -. He was unable to overcome his thirst for wanderings and adventures in the conditions wildlife, even after compulsory treatment V psychiatric clinic and the real risk of death while crossing the Torres Strait by canoe.
This hardy and dexterous man lived in the Australian jungle for more than half a century - without contact with outside world, friends and family, without political convictions or civic position. Sports talents Mikhail was 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 prerequisites, Theodore Kaczynski stops teaching 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 of 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
Maxim Kavtaradze has been living in solitude in a remote place for more than 20 years. The place where the hermit settled is called the Pillar of Katskhi - a 40-meter rock in Imereti (Western Georgia).
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].
Pavel Pryanikov
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 the Soviet regime, which they considered the embodiment 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 that were described in the press in the 2000s. 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 the forest in 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 his native village in the Magdagachinsky district, 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 he lives strange family, 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, I shared it with the same collectors 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. On the Bolshoy Sekochambi rapids our boat was covered 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.
Driving the 106th kilometer of the Yaroslavl highway, many notice not far from the road a strange wigwam-type structure, which in fact is not a wigwam at all, but a tipi - the dwelling of nomadic Indians. But where will the Indians come from on Yaroslavka? It turns out that a certain Yuri built the building several years ago, and also dug a dugout nearby, where he lives. Yes, not alone, but with Petrukha.
We went out to see what kind of housing this was. There is no fence, only the gate in the middle of the field is marked with posts - so that it is clear where to enter.
Some people in the distance are flying a tolerant kite.
Parking at the entrance and some birdhouses...
Do not hesitate to notify about your appearance in order to avoid misunderstandings
The red telephone from the 80s is connected to the dugout and works! We call and report our appearance.
In principle, you can immediately guess what the secret is.
We look into the wigwam - no one. Just a fireplace made of stones, books and a log with a chair. This is a reading hut!
We walk a little further forward and find ourselves in front of a real dugout, some kind of audiobook is playing from the speaker on the roof.
Entrance, view from inside. Fire safety complied with!
And here is the owner!
Meet Yuri Alekseev, a former lawyer, and now homeless, as he describes himself.
His house burned down several years ago and this is the second dugout that he dug out and lives here for his own pleasure - he does housework, reads and receives guests. He has no plans to return to the benefits of civilization - there is too much fuss and unnecessary effort.
To build a dugout, it took little - a shovel, dry pine trunks, polyethylene, clay and stones.
The water used for the farm is rainwater, which Yuri collects (he did not specify how).
The mattress for sleeping was somehow brought by the migrant workers, the rest was added as they arrived...
And the photographs of the classics fit perfectly into the interior.
Lives in a hole White Rabbit, aka Petrukha and an old friend of Yuri.
Attentive and thoughtful.
Edgar the raven also lives here. This one was embarrassed by the guests and pretended that he was interested in the traffic going on outside the window in Yaroslavka.
The survival manual was useful for the first time.
Inside is the same red telephone, through which the owner hears a call from the intercom.
Shelf on ropes.
Life is quite simple - food is cooked on a gas burner, the most common products are used.
When asked what to bring, Yuri denied it for a long time, assuring that nothing was needed. But if you bring it, then it’s peas. Peas, buckwheat and other cereals...
Behind the clay partition there are all amenities. There is even a bathhouse behind the other wall, but it was dark there and there will be no photos.
Yuri is a local attraction and guests appear in the house every day - he is a hospitable and sociable owner, he will serve you tea or coffee, and guests usually bring cookies with them. It will not be possible without communication - we listened to a wonderful lecture about the absurd, Chekhov and the cucumber, and other topics were probably discussed with other guests.
We couldn’t do without the benefits of civilization - from solar battery installed on the roof of the hole, the laptop is working and Yuri regularly goes online.
However, he does not intend to interrupt contact with the outside world; he periodically posts news on the Polyana 106 Facebook page.
About travel:
– Let it not be me who moves past everything, but let everything move past me. I’ll sit down and let the whole world go...
The birdhouses on the street turned out to be book depositories. Besides the crowd of books that are in the house, they are everywhere here.
Do you know what Boock Crossing is?
By registering yourself and assigning a special number to the book, you leave it in a pre-designed place (cafe, park, train station, bus, etc.), where anyone can pick it up and read it. In this way, the book is “freed” and saved from sitting on the shelf.
The former owner of the book will always know about the movement of his “pet”, receiving an e-mail about whose hands it fell into and how it ended up there. The second side goal is to turn the entire world into a “huge library.”
Tea cups for new arrivals.
The role of the table is played by a cable reel.
Tea from a samovar fresh air- what could be more beautiful?
By the way, several more similar dugouts recently appeared not far from Yura’s dugout - there were followers of a lifestyle without unnecessary things. The territory was called Zurbagan, it is practically a camp of modern hermits.
Guests are guests, but it’s time to know the honor. There are still more than a hundred kilometers to Moscow, and we will be home only after 4 hours, having collected all the traffic jams.
Do you have questions for Yuri? Ask, I hope he will answer them here. Or come visit, but be sure to bring a book!
Petrukha came out to see us off.
Hand on heart, would you risk being able to live like this?
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