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Author Peskov, V. (Vasiliĭ)

Title Lost in the taiga : one Russian family's fifty-year struggle for survival and religious freedom in the Siberian wilderness / Vassily Peskov ; translated by Marian Schwartz.

Publication Info. New York : Doubleday, 1994.

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Location Call No. Status
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  957.5 PES    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  957.5 PESKOV    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  957.5 P43    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xv, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Summary A Russian journalist provides a haunting account of the Lykovs, a family of Old Believers, members of a fundamentalist sect, who, in 1932, went to live in the depths of the Siberian Taiga and have survived for more than fifty years apart from the modern world.
Form Also issued online.
Contents The story of Nikolai Zhuravlev -- That land -- We meet -- Conversation by candlelight -- Garden and taiga -- Procuring Fire -- The Lykovs -- Daily life -- One year later -- Another summer -- The year of the ram -- Agafia's odyssey -- Winter and summer -- Housewarming -- The passing of Lykov the Elder -- All alone -- "Marriage" -- Journey to the "Little Mothers" -- The lure of the "Wilderness" -- A snowy winter -- Not the final word.
Subject Lykov family.
Peskov, V. (Vasiliĭ) -- Travel -- Russia (Federation) -- Abakan River Valley.
Hermits -- Russia (Federation) -- Abakan River Valley -- Biography.
Old Believers -- Russia (Federation) -- Abakan River Valley -- Biography.
Abakan River Valley (Russia) -- Description and travel.
Added Title Taezhnyĭ tupik. English
ISBN 0385472099: $26.95 ($34.95 Can.)
9780385472098
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