Hey everyone. This is Gary. I'm off this week traveling and attending a conference and while I'm away I've lined up some vintage episodes and deep cuts that most of you probably haven't heard before and even if you have heard them a refresher never hurts. I'll be back again with brand new episodes on January 30th.

In 1978, a Soviet helicopter pilot flying over the forests of Siberia made an incredible discovery.

Not far from the border of Mongolia, up the side of a mountain, he saw a clearing and signs of

human habitation.

The location was far removed from any other humans.

In fact, it was almost 250 kilometers to the nearest human settlement. What they found

there was astonishing. Learn more about the

incredible Lycoff family on this episode of Everything Everywhere

Daily. The story of the Lyco family. The atheists and the official policy of the Soviet Union was the promotion of atheism.

This included the confiscation of church property, arresting clergy, and mocking and

harassing devout religious followers. In Russia most of the people at the time of the revolution belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church.

Within the Russian Orthodox Church, there was a little-known schism that occurred back in the mid-17th century.

It was then that Moscow Patriarch Nikon instituted reforms to the

Russian Orthodox liturgy and those reforms caused a small group to splinter off

and practice the old liturgy. That group were known as the Old Believers. Under the Soviet Union,

Russian Orthodox believers were persecuted, but the Old Believers were especially so.

Enter the Patriarch of the Lyce family, Karp Lyco.

Karp and his family were old believers, which didn't sit well with the powers that be in the Soviet Union.

In 1936, his brother was killed by government forces forces and Karp got the hint.

Rather than betray his beliefs, Karp took his wife, Acolyna, and two children,

Savin and Natalia, and headed for the hills.

And did they ever head for the hills?

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