Russian Agafia Lykova lives in solitude in a remote part of southern Siberia where her family moved before her birth in 1945 to escape religious persecution under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Her ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link You've probably never heard of Agafia Lykov. Most people haven't, and that's intentional: Agafia is a hermit who lives miles from the nearest town ...

Agafia Lykova achieved what was previously thought impossible. When Soviet geologists flew over the Siberian taiga in 1978, they spotted a small clearing with a crude dwelling in one of the most ...

Standing before a microphone, twining notes and words, Opal Agafia’s true nature reveals itself. Until three years ago, music remained just a notion — albeit a burning one — for the Arkansas-based ...

In 1936, fearing persecution from Joseph Stalin's Soviet Russia, the Lykov family cut themselves off from Russian society. They were Old Believers, and thus part of a fundamentalist Russian Orthodox ...

Persecuted by Soviet authorities, they hid in the forest for decades. When only one woman remained alive, she made contact with the outside world, but the shock of 'civilization' convinced her to ...

SIBERIAN TAIGA, Russia -- Agafia Lykova emerges from the thick forest on the banks of the Abakan River like an image from Russian folklore. Dressed in ragged black sackcloth with a tattered head scarf ...

Agafia Lykova, 70, who has spent her whole life in the Russian wilderness, called in help using satellite phone A 70-year-old hermit who has spent her entire life in the Siberian wilderness has been ...

Siberia’s most famous hermit, Agafia Lykova, emerged from the Russian wilderness last Wednesday — for the first time in 70 years. According to reports, the reclusive women used an emergency satellite ...