Vladimir Megre

March 17, 2022 Global Earth Repair

Author of “The Ringing Cedars of Russia” – Russia

Vladimir Megre is a Russian entrepreneur and writer best known as the author of the “Ringing Cedars of Russia” series of books, of which the first and most well-known volume is “Anastasia.” Since the 1990s this series has been extremely influential in giving rise to several socio-religious movements. One of the central ideas communicated by the series is encouraging the creation of a garden and ancestral dwelling on a plot of land (ideally at least one hectare in size, per family), what Megre refers to as a “kin’s homestead.” The aim is essentially to focus especially on cultivating and curating nature, while establishing a generational homestead, and ultimately a Utopian-esque society with Nature at it’s core. Simply put, his books have become the basis for a Russian “back-to-the-land” movement based on permanently sustainable, self-reliant, and self-sufficient “simple living,” providing both physical subsistence and spiritual fulfillment. They combine deep ecology with traditional family values and the worship of God through nature, rather than the typic of communal “hippie” lifestyle.

Megre’s actual experiences and voyages on the Ob River in western Siberia form the central plot narrative of his books written between 1996 and 2010, wherein he describes the nomadic lifestyle that inspired his works. This leads into his demonstrating that the primary concern of life in general (and the Series, itself) is the correct approach to planning, conceiving and raising children, which should all occur at the same location; a family homestead. That is, specifically, a self-sufficient, privately owned and operated plot of land surrounded by a hedge with a water source, one or several dwellings, and the presence of woods, a meadow, vegetable gardens, berries, herbs, mushrooms, greenhouses, a sauna and beehives. He encourages that such a homestead should also be created by a mother and father (or direct ascendant) for the health and enjoyment of posterity. The ideal result is a living environment perfectly attuned to its human inhabitants, a “love space” for the beneficial conception, birth and upbringing, wholesome life in general, and in perpetuity, of generations.

Megre grew up in the village of Kuznichi, in present-day Ukraine. He spent most of his childhood with his grandmother, whom he describes as a village healer. As a teenager in the 1960s, Megre occasionally visited a monk called Father Feodorit at the Trinity-Sergiev Monastery in Sergiev Posad, north-east of Moscow. By the late 1980s had become the president of the Inter-Regional Association of Siberian Entrepreneurs. In 2011 Vladimir Megre became the laureate of Gusi Peace Prize International. Megre has also been notably inducted into the envied list of “The 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.”

Before the publication of Anastasia in 1996, there were virtually no family homestead settlements in Russia. In 2014, a conference of the Ringing Cedars’ movement in Vladimir City attracted delegates from over 150 family homestead settlements from 48 of the 89 regions of Russia. The current register of Ringing Cedars-inspired settlements lists 213 villages, and those just with an Internet presence. During a presentation at the United Nations Nexus Summit in New York City in 2014, Megre presented a map showing the locations of 230 settlements in Russia.