1995. A plan began to unfold in post-perestroika Russia.
In 1994, a Russian trader named Vladimir Megre took a fleet of river steamers up the Ob river loaded up with consumable items for people in the remote villages of the Siberian taiga to purchase. See more of his story here
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On the trip, he stopped at a small clearing by the river with only three or four small houses nearby. Two elder gentlemen met Megre by the shore and asked him to come into the forest to help them cut down a large "ringing" pine tree.
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This was a very peculiar request. Megre said that he had neither the time nor available man-power to execute the two elder gentlemen's request. The meeting however had piqued Megre's curiosity.
Over the winter months, Megre set about making a study of the Siberian pine Pinus sibirica, its health benefits, food value - this pine tree produces "pine nuts", and what the business opportunities were. Megre was surprised at the untapped potential of this plant. He decided he would meet with the two old men the following spring.
In the spring of spring of 1995, Vladimir Megre and a small convoy of river boats went back to the clearing where Megre had met the two old men the spring before.
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The two old gentlemen were not in the village, and when he asked a young local woman about their whereabouts, she said the old men were her grand-father and great grandfather.
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As Megre was very keen to meet the two old gentle-men, he conceded to follow the young woman into the isolated back-waters of the Siberian taiga, a trek that took him 25kms into the wilderness of the great pine forests of northern Russia.
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The young woman's name was "Anastasia".
Over the next three days, Vladimir Megre's world was turned around and shaken about. He had not known that people like Anastasia and her grand-fathers existed.
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They told him they were from an ancient line of people called the "Vedrus" (pr. Vedroose). They lived directly with nature and with the earth. Anastasia showed Megre things she could do that he had never seen before, as a man living an urban environments in the cities of Russia.
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For example, Anastasia could speak to wild animals - communicate with them through facial or hand gestures or by clicking her fingers; she could call bugs and insects towards her at will; she looked far back into Megre's childhood and could see through her mind's eye things that had happened to him that only he knew...
Anastasia told him the future as well... She told him about a crisis in Russia that had been averted. She said it was because of the love from the hands of many thousands of Russian gardeners, "dachniks" who had put their loving energies, thoughts of joy and gratitude into the soil of Mother Earth, and restored and strengthened her.
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Indeed, we do find that it was only because of the small home gardener - the dachniks - that the entire Russian economy did not collapse during the 1990s.
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Anastasia laid out to Vladimir Megre a whole great plan to save humanity from a technocratic future that leaves no space for "natural Man" within it. Anastasia showed Megre how to live again - as a fully alive and authentic human being, living and existing in complete harmony with the natural environment around him, and in respect and balance with all forms of life.
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People returning to the land live as a family on a 1 hectare (2.5 acre) plot of land - a small self-sufficiency property. The purpose of this website is to show politicians and other visitors here the basic concepts of what Anastasia talks about in the books that Vladimir Megre subsequently wrote.
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Article (2011): 40% Of Russia’s Food Is Grown From Dacha Gardens
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Please see Dr. Leonid Sharashkin's paper:
THE SOCIOECONOMIC AND CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF FOOD GARDENING IN THE VLADIMIR REGION OF RUSSIA. Pdf.