The Taiga Dead End

5 hrs. 28 min.

Miscellaneous

Language Russian

Author Vasily Peskov

Narrator Maria Abalkina

Description

Vasily Peskov is a journalist and writer, a special correspondent of “Komsomolskaya Pravda.” He is well known to readers as the author of books about nature, about our Fatherland, and about bright and interesting people. Vasily Peskov’s works have received many awards, including the Lenin Prize. He travels widely throughout the country and has visited many parts of the world.

The documentary novella “Taiga Dead End” is the result of years of observation of the “Robinsonade” of the old-believer family in mountainous Khakassia. The book tells about the famous Lykkov family, which lived in isolation from people for more than thirty years. For the first time, we learned about the taiga discovery of the geologists in a newspaper publication in 1982. Since then, the author of the first essay, Vasily Peskov, has visited the Lykkovs for seven years. Reports about each trip were published in “Komsomolskaya Pravda.”

Contents:

01_Nikolay Ustinovich’s story
02_That edge
03_The meeting
04_Conversation by the candle
05_The garden and the taiga
06_Getting fire
07_The Lykkovs
08_Daily life
09_A year later
10_Another summer
11_A year under the sign of the goat
12_Agafya’s Odyssey
13_Winter and summer
14_New settlement
15_Death of older Lykkov
16_One
17_Marriage
18_Walking to the mothers
19_The not-last word