National Geographic gets cold reception from Old Believers

By Naomi Klouda Homer Tribune – 2/2/13 When a pair of directors from the National Geographic reality-series visited the Old Believer village of Nikolaevsk Tuesday evening, only about a dozen people attended. Word had gone out that even though it is the National Geographic Channel, the producers’ aim may be to sensationalize Old Believer lives as had been done with another religious group, the Hutterites of Montana. Nikolaevsk, population just under 350 according to the last census count, sits at a high elevation on North Fork Road between Homer and Anchor Point