Agafia. Hermit Surviving in Russian Wilderness for 70 years
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Soon after this film aired, Agafia found a helper who has now been living with her for more than a year. Georgy Danilov, 53, is from Orenburg. He is an Old Believer. It was Agafia’s spiritual father who found and blessed her helper. Georgy has been doing the toughest chores for almost two years: he chops firewood, brings water from the river, and digs the vegetable garden. Agafia doesn’t always see eye to eye with Georgy. She views him as a novice and demands his full obedience and submission, which doesn’t always sit well with Georgy. Despite their differences, they try to find common ground. Apart from the main helper, volunteers and students from various Russian cities also come to Agafia’s hut to help her out.
In the mid-17th century, the leader of Russia’s Orthodox Church, Patriarch Nikon, introduced radical reforms in Russia. Many couldn’t accept the changes and became known as “Old Believers”. To avoid religious persecution first from the Orthodox Church and then from the Soviets, families fled to some of the most remote corners of the world. In 1978, one such family was discovered by a group of geologists in the remote Russian Republic of Khakassia, Siberia. The Lykovs looked as if they belonged to a previous century: they dressed in homespun clothes and used primitive instruments in their everyday life. They were completely self-sufficient and still highly religious.
Today, Agafia, 70, is the last surviving member of this family. When RT Doc filmmakers met her, she was in desperate need of a helper. They encourage her to write a letter to Old Believers everywhere in an attempt to find one. This letter, written in Old Slavonic language, is available on our site.
The film crew also interviews Erofey Sedov, a former drilling geologist. He was one of those who discovered the Lykovs and told the world about them. He got to know them well and is now ready to share information that will make us see the familiar story of this family of hermits in a different light. But is any of it true?
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Russian version of Benedict XVI's "Jesus of Nazareth" presented in Moscow
A presentation of the new Russian translation of Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI took place on December 2 at the Spiritual Library in Moscow. This is the first book about Jesus Christ ever written by a Roman Catholic Pontiff.Those who offered remarks at the event included the chief of the publishing house Azbuka, Dennis Vaselov, the Vatican's representative in Russia, Archbishop Antonio Mennini, the Archbishop of Moscow Paolo Pezzi, and the representative of the Moscow Patriarchate, Fr. Igor Vishanov.In his speech, Archbishop Paolo Pezzi highlighted the main problem Christianity faces nowadays: The dramatic reality of our times is the fact that, for the first time in two thousand years, the majority of the people could lose their perception of the only thing that always inspired them the Personality of Christ.In his opinion there is an urgent need for books like that by Benedict XVI to make sure that this will not happen.Archbishop Antonio Mennini pointed out several lines of the Holy Father's thought, which can be found both in the new book, in his encyclicals, and recent Papal speeches.In response to journalists questions, Father Igor Vishanov noted: Several years ago in Moscow I saw Cardinal Ratzingers book Introduction to Christianity in Orthodox bookstores, and, trust me, that means a lot!
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ABOUT VISSARION, JESUS IN SIBERIA
In the middle of Siberia's Taiga forest, east of Abakan and down an unmarked dirt road stretching across the Kuraginsk district of Krasnoyarsk territory, there is a place where many have found salvation. It is known as Petropavlovka, the home of the Church of the Last Testament, which has attracted at least 5,000 followers since its establishment in 1990. Last summer, after years of unanswered emails to the church's press department, I was finally invited to visit.
The church's leader is known as Vissarion, a.k.a. the Teacher. In another life he was Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop and served as a patrol officer in Minusinsk until the late 1980s. Then, on August 18, 1990, he experienced a revelation: His was the word of God. He began sermonizing in and around his hometown and soon, with a handful of newly converted followers by his side, he retreated to the ancient Taiga and began a new life -- and, some might say, founded an entirely new world.
Just about everything Vissarion has ever said or thought has been recorded in the never-ending Last Testament, a follow-up of sorts to the New Testament that currently spans 10 volumes and thousands of pages. Inside is doctrine on the dual origins of the universe (one spawned nature, the other the human soul), something called the outer-space mind (aliens, basically), and the rapidly approaching end of the world. Or at least this is what I understand from the handful of scriptures that have been (somewhat poorly) translated into English. While Christian imagery abounds, the church's ideology is an all-encompassing amalgam of the world's major religions and includes aspects of Buddhism, Hinduism, Paganism and many other spiritual philosophies.
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