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.

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The story of the Lycoe family starts with the Russian Revolution in 1917. The Bolsheviks who took power were 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.

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