The immortals - way to the stars

A group of former Russian physicists settled in the southernmost island of Europe to resurrect the philosophy and religion of ancient Greeks , to make gods and people, mortals and immortals, coexist with each other, and to deceive their own death.

In the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, in a climate of great uncertainty, a group of 7 Russian scientists decided to change their lives completely and settled in Gavdos (Greece), a tiny island in the Libyan sea marking the southernmost point of Europe. There they bought a small piece of land where they built their house and started to live together as a family, in harmony with Nature, and passionately dedicated themselves to the study of ancient Greek philosophy and religion.

"The Russians", as the inhabitants of the island call them, have revived the philosophy of Pythagoras, with the idea that they can program themselves not to die. They started to believe that it does exist a way of behaviour that at least can postpone death, that it is possible to change their own existence in such a way that life cannot end. "Once, in ancient Greece, gods and people, mortals and immortals could co-exist with each other; we just have to free our minds through philosophical reasoning and we'll be able to revive those times", says Aleksey, a former physicist, "we consider Greece the birthplace of the coexistence of immortals and mortals".

They soon established the Pythagorean Institute of Philosophical Studies for the Immortality of Man, aimed to explore the essence of man and the future of humanity. Gavdos apparently was not a casual choice, as the establishment of the group couldn’t happen anywhere else but there, where- the myth says- the nymph Calypso was keen to donate Ulysses the extraordinary gift of immortality.