we're old believe us we're not supposed to be public people we'd rather not be filmed or shown on television we're supposed to live a quiet life and keep distant from worldly masses that's what we need if we're to keep our traditions. not to be disturbed too much. music. i mean but it would. give you. this.

is a. this is a small community of orthodox traditionalists returned to russia just over a year ago their ancestors emigrated to let in america in the one nine hundred forty s. coming back to their homeland has been their cherished dream ever since. a . good morning class sent down. but this year we've been

joined by children from believe yeah your. list trace the long journey that these students undertook to get to their new homeland. came to pray more year. to my children going to school because some of the school children. smoke. in fact. the school and by their own parents. if we. are into that school. we wouldn't last long. is the community's head the forty seven year old man has nine children. he was born in latin america. he. leads the community because he is the.

children should be educated. people. we always teach our children. children of the. time of the. children. learn. in the old language. the children. first.

take a simple view. and the countryside. they have for the present system of schooling and. for the past. three hundred years they have taken pains to protect their traditions by staying as distant from the outside possible to resist the impact of civilization throughout their history they have wandered the globe in search of the

most secluded retreats. family lives in a prefabricated apartment house which stands in the midst of a field. he has seven children. was the only community member to send his children to a state school and yes. they left for. over that school. if you don't send your kids to school you're welcome to go with us. we haven't reached an agreement. they left and didn't tell us. i agree with you well there are so many people with education who live in russia and a lot of them well they don't even have jobs we have always trying to live and work in rural areas and we would just as comfortable as those learned people.

certainly we never went hungry or. come back to nice. zuma should be around here somewhere and. rocky soil makes a farming difficult income for t.n.t. no longer grows crops his cow helps his family make ends meet she is free to graze together with the cattle belonging to local people the trouble though is that she tends to street towards evening. to come out. now that the community has left for t.n.t. is toying with the idea of going to russia's western part he believes the soil there is suited for farming but due to the resettlement program he is forced to

stay in the far east for another year. i invited my brother to join us we even set aside a farmstead for him anyway it's up to him to decide. they can flats are all that is left of the community of card for. my we prayed in this flat. it's almost been emptied but there are a few things still that's why there's a look on the door. this was my brother's tryouts. his family left before easter. exactly how many people lived here eleven.

son is still here in this block he is going to collect some of the longings left behind. live here. i am planning to leave on friday evening because i don't like this place. is a better place. for a. few secular people. says he will not be missing his. much. he wanted to come here when he was in brazil so i bought tickets for his family but he now has me around twenty thousand dollars that's almost six hundred thousand rubles but when he did come here he began to look for excuses not to give the money back. to the n.t.

and family appeared to be stuck in this five story building. coming in welcome. this is all flat. this is a bedroom. that is full of girls. one of them is older than the other. and this is our bedroom. we sleep there and two little girls sleep here. the two boys are in another flat. we've packed up to go to the kaluga region but we still can't bring ourselves to leave

this place. this is for our kitchen and my wife she's cooking. our community scolded us for sending them to school for a whole year. if we kept on living with them we have gone on suffering long. if you heard by what early on has done. tours away from our cozy nest and abandoned. i can't bear it. has seven or eight children. they'll find work at a place to live with but all believers lead a normal life outside their community along with family breaks away secular ways

after asylum but they'll no longer live in a way that befits all believers. only two options are open to truly empty either he comes to terms with the community and pays his debt or waits for permission to go to rushes west. meets his son your friend who has arrived by ferry boat the river separates the village of deer sue from the rest of the world. your friend has brought all kinds of things in his truck but the boat is too small the settlers will have to shovel between the banks fifteen times in order to get. cargo back to

their village. they would like to organize a better ferry service but the problem is that there are only two villages on the far bank right it's the price that people have to pay if they want to live far away from civilization. potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for the northeast it's expected to hit stunning in a few hours from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm. but

what we're watching is the very heavy snow moving into boston proper earlier today it was very sticky you can see it start to become much more pattern. line there's still a lot of snow out here a place for snowball fight. piece and it is kind of pretty incredible day there and even record snowfall throughout much of it might still be slugged three driving lessons to the emergency vehicles. the worst. quite out of.

the three of them but if you were on the way to the. amount of troops. came all the way from uruguay and bolivia. now there are fifty such people and. they were live. build houses. alexander was a one time head of the administration of one of the nearby villages now that he is retired he takes fishermen on guided tours of local forests in reverse he maintains good relations with the new russians living in neighboring villages. if i visit them often right now i'm bringing a doctor to them. a

doctor has arrived in tears to all believers take an ambivalent view of medicine if medics come to them then it's fine but if they go to a doctor themselves it's problematic. most diseases are treated with traditional methods like medicinal herbs. we use a medical her. drink tea with dry helps a winter as well as roots there are a lot of good herb. do however allow some exceptions medication is allowed for severe pain while women go to hospital to give birth however there have been instances of expectant mothers escaping from hospital just before they were due to deliver general. have few health concerns. threatening examined your skin is clean how are your legs.

let's listen to your heart. there is nothing to worry about. it's not scary. our children are not as healthy as they are they are healthy from life in such an environmentally purer place. the only believe. after their arrival in russia but it felt too close to modern civilization. managed to find an uninhabited village in the country's far east rolling hills and a river separate the village from the rest of the world. is in the communities a spiritual leader he is seventy two years old can talk about his family for hours on end. i have three daughters and one. one daughter lives in australia another daughter and two sons are in europe way yet another daughter. i

think i have fifty three grandchildren and twenty five great grandchildren i don't know the exact figure. a reform of liturgical practices in the seventeenth century triggered within the russian orthodox church. because they never accepted the new rules were shippers were subjected to continuous persecution by church officials and. throughout those years old believers had to either hide or flee the country today there is no hostility but they still want to live in accordance with their. own believes don't accept fish from lay people because they've been gussets for their they clean the whole fish themselves their plates and. different from those used by lay people to. clean even then need to be clean of.

their communities at worst fear is the prospect of mingling with modern civilization. these are not supposed to live eat or pray together with the lay people for example they can't buy meat sausages milk or bread from the shops whatever food is needed they make themselves. so what it's yeast is the main ingredient of bread made in accordance with russian traditions. you added water and salt and to mix the stuff with flour. that takes half an hour. the bullshit then you leave the mixture to sour for about five hours after that you bake it in a russian stove please. because each. one will always do it this way. teaching the girls the art of making bread she came to do.

in two thousand and eight. thirty eight years old she already has six grandchildren . i don't know exactly the secret of the russian stove but i do know that the bread baked in it tastes good we had a russian stove spec in europe why having a russian stove in the household was considered a must. younger daughter lived together with her. i. believe. to decide whether they want to come here. this. is very beautiful here. we decided to stay and are not planning on moving anywhere. when we

came here an old woman by the name of or yama lived in this house she was an old believer. after she died one and half years ago women have been to her house. and were happy to live here. ok now it's time to place the day in the stove the village of received a new lease of life with the arrival of believe. in the morning they go to church to pray. after that it's time to get down to work children are given an early introduction to adult life. to begin with when the boys are allowed to handle the simplest of jobs. married women here are obliged to cover their head. of golf ia is split from her husband because she wears a scarf none the less there has been no formal to force the people when it's not

ready yet it has to be baked for another fifteen minutes or so. when i was still going with. my husband is about forty three years old now so life was normal for us until once he went to brazil where he shaved off his beard. he said he had lost it because of stress. truly he was going crazy with the approach of old age. he had you feel feeling towards the community he found everything about it and real grind. he's like to dainty from gaza for. getting. old believer couples have difficulty getting divorced as a rule their wedlock is not officially registered. don't think that official papers apply to them they can be divorced but only in the country where they got married.

it takes forty minutes for joe to bake in a russian stove that's the way we did it in brazil and uruguay this tradition is held up by a recipe handed down from generation to generation i just i can't even remember how i learned the scale but that's how bread was made all over russia in the old days. the girls are doing in broidery not all of the patterns are traditional given that they spend most of their young lives in latin america some of the patterns that reflect would have why in a motifs however most of them are based on russian folklore. at the beaches these black tropical birds call to con slave in brazil. watching them fly is a sheer delight. they have very beautiful beaks to the trouble those dead they play dirty tricks by stealing people's fruit. but some traces of their previous life in latin america can be found in the households of the old believers

this colombian machete is made of very good steel you can see a dove pictured on it others bear pictures of monkeys such for cities are no good at all. machete is the weapon of south american tribes they have no gums a native picks up a machete. that here and goes. on you know what i call the machete especially came in handy when they were being deprived of their land they used in a very effective way and rolling as they locked them all for their machetes intakes of chickens head off and one girl. clothing sends a readily identifiable social signal to community members. they instantly know who's who is the person is from their midst or an outsider. the length of their

dresses trousers and shirt sleeves is strictly regimented they should cover most of the body facial hair is another sensitive point no all the believer is supposed to be beardless old believers consider that any deviation from canon is indicative of spiritual weakness they maintain that anyone's appearance should conform to god's instructions. for us milk is still warm try it. in actual fact however this rule doesn't cover those who are not members of the community alexander has allowed a family of young old believers to live in one of his two small houses in exchange for organic food. with you on sundays the old believe is stay at home. anything even go fishing in the river because they don't want to kill fish or any other

living creatures. congratulations to everyone i wish you all good health and the spirit of god. in spite of various restrictions festive occasions and noisy merry making among the community is not affected. is not frowned upon on such occasions but only if it's homemade and. you're already drinking it's not very strong it's only been brewing for two weeks. that overheard everybody. drink with us it's a holiday. as the villagers move from house to house the celebrations go and told us. that why. he's my son in law. and she is my daughter. around

a half three children two sons and one daughter three were born in russia she is a russian woman she's not a woman she's a girl should be a woman one day. as well as splits occur in the communities of old believers. some twenty years ago my mother fell in love with an argentinean needless to say no one in the community liked it my mother and my father then decided to leave that was a terrible sin they spent the whole in here outside the community my mother taught russian to my father and eventually converted him to our faith that shows it was all from her sin my father's name was mario said a bottle now he's called moses. the old movers know that they don't keep up with the times but that's the only way for them to preserve their way of life yet

despite their conservative views they are in fact committed to freedom of choice. anyone is allowed to leave the community to join secular society and anyone can rejoin the community these people have voluntarily undertaken to live by their own rules. don't express disapproval of worldly life but they sincerely feel sorry for all those who don't. come from bolivia and latin america. but decided to come back to russia traditionally. the russian federation to help us to put down roots here building. possible. message to the president of the russian federation himself.

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