Authorities of southwest Siberia"s Kemerovo...

"The shirt and other gifts have been sent to the presidential administration," the spokesman told RIA Novosti.

Agafya Lykova"s taiga neighbor, hunter Yerofei Sedov, heard on the radio that President Dmitry Medvedev was visiting the Siberian Federal District on February 10-12 and told the hermit that the president had praised Siberia.

After that, Lykova, 66, decided to sew a shirt for Medvedev and give him a handmade birch-bark basket and pine nuts.

She also invited the president to visit her after Easter that will be celebrated on April 4.

The hermit sent her gifts via Vladimir Makuta, the head of the Tashtagol district, who had brought her presents from the Kemerovo governor, Aman Tuleyev, that included hay and oats for her goats, corn for her chickens, potatoes, medicine, candles, fruit, a Swiss knife and chrysanthemums in the wake of March 8, International Women"s Day.

Tuleyev first met Lykova in 1997 when he visited her home in the wilderness

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