Most of us like reading stories about ancient times and fantasize that our ancestors’ lives were easy and romantic, but were they really? 24-year-old Russian man Pavel Sapozhnikov decided to see what his ancestors’ lives were really like by spending 6 months living in 10th-century conditions.
“The idea is to see if a modern man can survive alone in an early medieval environment, what impact this kind of lifestyle will have on his psychological state” says Alexey Ovcharenko, who is the driving force behind the “Alone in the Past” project.
For six months – until March 22 – Pavel will live in a medieval farm without electricity, running water, Internet access and other modern comforts. The autumn and winter seasons were chosen on purpose – scientists want to explore the everyday challenges faced by medieval people during the toughest time of the year.
If given the chance, would you be brave enough to live alone in the past?
“The idea is to see if a modern man can survive alone in an early medieval environment, what impact this kind of lifestyle will have on his psychological state” says Alexey Ovcharenko, who is the driving force behind the “Alone in the Past” project.
For six months – until March 22 – Pavel will live in a medieval farm without electricity, running water, Internet access and other modern comforts. The autumn and winter seasons were chosen on purpose – scientists want to explore the everyday challenges faced by medieval people during the toughest time of the year.
If given the chance, would you be brave enough to live alone in the past?
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
This is awesome. I wonder if he drinks milk from the animals.
Amazingly wonderful! Just so very perfect!
Very impressive! I probably wouldn't survive a week.
You got my respect man. I just dream to do the same. King!
I hate reality shows, but this one I would most definitely watch if it was to be made.
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No female?
What a waste of time...
After the 6 months he will be treated in a most modern clinic... and a baby goat will be named... Ameheherico!
So great! I'd love to do something like this! It would take a long to time to prepare and learn the necessary skills, but I think a hard simple life on the land would be a most rewarding one. I wish you success!
Not a very revealing experiment because he lacks one of the most important elements of medieval (or any human period) life: other people. While there have always been hermits they are pretty rare. Medieval society like any society existed on the principle of shared labor. A medieval farm would have at least one or two other people
... To help with tasks, probably many more. While it is cool what he is doing, living history groups take up this sort if challenge all the time. Of course he does have people there: someone took these photos.
I'm wondering what he fed the animals, especially the chickens. The place doesn't look large enough to store months of grain, and even with goats clearing the snow to get at the grass, that would be a pretty limited diet for the chickens. Does he have something more nutritionally dense to feed the birds? Interesting stuff!
Here is the homepage of the project: http://ratobor.com/alone.html and the blog: http://sapog.ratobor.com/
It is in Russian but Google translate can cope with it.
I agree with M.A. Cramer/Valgard about the shared labor thing i mean even in the medieval times there were always other people around....but i would love to try the same thing in a sense ..i do medieval reinactment so i would love to live it for real....
The chickens also look like a modern breed (New Hampshire Reds?) which probably lay more and larger eggs than the ones he could have had back then.
So, did he make all the clothes and blankets himself? I know what the strips wound around his feet are, thanks to "The Way of the Pilgrim."
stupid. its called amish they do it every day, this is just a waste of time story to fill up a web page, and to the people that say amazing, how is this amazing? it's called survival, something most people dont know about because their stupid and lazy.
Interesting experience for him. I was most interested in the tools he was using and the clothing, as far as how well it held up to the rigorous daily use. Im sure there were occasions when early medieval folk spent long periods of time alone, depending on how remote their farm was from other villages and what time of year it was. Its obviously dangerous to leave the safety of shelter and food during the winter.
Very interesting experiment. But if he is all alone, who took those pictures??
no of course not, he just nips down to the viking 24 hour shop and buys a pint....
Their stupid and lazy what? 'Their' is to possess. What you mean is 'they're' which is an abbreviation of 'they are'.
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truely devoted.. amazing pictures
I didn't realize they had cameras in the 10th century
Amish lifestyle and technology is far more advanced than what he has. I'd love to see you attempt what he's doing; with no one to complain at you would probably go insane...
Looks good to me! Sigh me up. But I want a full year. The only problem is that people didn't live alone back then, unless they were outlawed. Its just to much work for one person to keep a farm running.
He probably just wanted to do this for himself as a rite of passage. He might not have been able to convince anyone else to live with him in this environment for that long, as modern people are too frightened generally to leave their comfortable and excessive and extravagant modern lifestyles.
Sam said: This is awesome. I wonder if he drinks milk from the animals.
Of course not, he just milks them to alleviate the boredom!
d ont think they have new Hampshire reds in Russia, lol
How stupid are you, Sam?
Yeah what's with the camera?
Sam, if you look at some of photos of him and goats. I think it is safe to assume he is milking them.
I'm impressed. I wonder how long it took to learn the necessary skills in order to attempt the experiment.
Gotta love a clown like 'Anonymous'. He can snipe at others but doesn't have the balls to post his name.
Yes it is awesome. I wonder if he cooks and eats the meat from the chickens.
Why is it people have to find the negative in any situation. I found this story interesting, thought provoking and endearing.
Absolutely correct.
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Shared labor is true, but when times get really hard... sometime. He will be ahead of you in knowing what to do!
good for him.hopefully he enjoyed his vile smell & all the mastrubation
I wonder who made the pictures, so it wasnt totally medevial age, nor alone..:)
He couldn't figure out a single way to stay clean? I gotta call BS on that... He could wash, and wash his clothes... good grief.. nasty
You are all a bunch of cum guzzling cunts.
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The thing is, living like this for him wood be way harder than it was back then, because people got to work together, or at least trade with each other.
good experiment
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