Agafia Lykova, a hermitess from the old Believer family, crosses herself before taking water from the Abakan river. The Lykov family of Old Believers went to the Sayan mountains taiga in the later 1930s, resided in isolation and were discovered by Soviet geologists in 1978. Agafia Lykova is currently the only survivor of the Lykovs.
- Package: Agafia Lykova, Siberian hermitess
- Categories: Lifestyle & Leisure, Human Interest
- Location: Republic of Khakassia, Russia
- Event date: 19.02.2018
- Date published: 04.03.2018
- Author: Ilya Pitalev
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 5568x3712px, 11.7Mb