That was in 1936, and there were only four Lykovs then—Karp; his wife,
Akulina; a son named Savin, 9 years old, and Natalia, a daughter who was
only 2. Taking their possessions and some seeds, they had retreated
ever deeper into the taiga, building themselves a succession of crude
dwelling places, until at last they had fetched up in this desolate
spot. Two more children had been born in the wild—Dmitry in 1940 and
Agafia in 1943—and neither of the youngest Lykov children had ever seen a
human being who was not a member of their family. All that Agafia and
Dmitry knew of the outside world they learned entirely from their
parents' stories. The family's principal entertainment, the Russian
journalist Vasily Peskov noted, "was for everyone to recount their
dreams." (
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