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Durakovo (translated as "Village of Fools") is a village in Russia, 150 miles south-east from Moscow.
History
Durakovo is a 400-acre agricultural settlement that developed on a foundation of state farming of beets and cabbage. The village was named, according to local legend, when one aristocrat won it from another in a card game called “Fools”. The Durakovo region is home to artists, priests, businessmen, and farmers — all who recently would have witnessed the birth and growth of human industry, prosperity, and sobriety due to the creation of a residential treatment center for alcoholic men. The center, also named Durakovo, is a twelve-step focused vocational and residential treatment program for individuals with alcohol and drug addictions; residents’ ages range from 15 to 67.
Documentary
In 2008, Nino Kirtadze realized a documentary film entitled "For God, Tsar and the Fatherland" (alternative title: "Durakovo: Village of Fools"), regarding the rehabilitation centre from Đurakovo, patronized by Russian Orthodox philantropist Mikhail Morosov.
References
- http://www.counselormagazine.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=128&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=63
- "Why Democracy: Russia's Village of Fools - BBC 4".