"Taking their possessions and some seeds, they had retreated ever deeper into the taiga… 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."

Mike Dash’s 2013 article for The Smithsonian on the Lykov family in Siberia