The story of Agafia (part 2) In 1978 the family was discovered by a group of geologists who were exploring over the region in an helicopter. They first spotted patches of land in the middle of the forest, and they were very surprised because they thought that nobody could live in that region. The first meeting and communicaton was not easy because the language they talked was slightly different from the russian language. In 1980, the Russian government offered Agafia a tour to discover the country. For the first time she saw cars, roads, towns, and everything about the modern life, but she did not like it; so she chose to return where she had grown up, a peaceful place, away from the pollution of the large cities. In 1981, one of the geologist settled down in the Taiga and became Agafia’s neighbour. Sometimes he helped her , but most of the time she managed to do everything by herself. Agafia's days are always busy, because hard work is something important and mandatory for Old believers. She fishes in the river, cuts the wood for the fire, grows her vegetables, mainly potatoes, but also onions, peas, carrots and turnips, she prepares her meals and she also spends four or five hours every day to pray...