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Smithsonian has a fascinating account about the Lykov family which went into deep isolation in the Siberian taiga in the 1930s, only to remain there without human contact until refound in the late 1970s. For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II
I was going to say that it's like a Russian version of Pitcairn Island, but upon closer inspection that analogy doesn't work. Maybe it's more similar to the Japanese soldier who didn't know WWII ended and kept fighting for another 30 years.
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