I'm a passionate student and, I hope, future anthropologist. But now my major is Russian Literature and I also keen on linguistics and sociology. I'm very interested in Soviet history and especially in fall of Soviet Union.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

because it's the best way to feel the place, where you are, from within. To see more than a simple tourist
i'm not interested in tourist attractions, but in the real life of real people in a real city

Interests

• literature
• poetry
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• anthropology
• gender studies
• languages
• sociology
• hitchhiking
• art

Music, Movies, and Books

Mouvies: Born in USSR, Clockwork Orange, The Piano Teacher by Michael Haneke, Elle by Paul Verhoeven, Mandy by Panos Cosmatos, Cargo 200 and Brother by Aleksei Balabanov, Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Chernobyl series

Sci-fi series such as The Expanse, Westworld, Firefly, Altered Carbon

Books: War and Peace, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Moscow-Petushki, Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Alexei Yurchak, Nabokov, Anna Akhmatova, Mandelstam

Art: Marina Abramović, Wassily Kandinsky, Ilya Kabakov, Lucian Freud, Egon Schiele

All things which are so bad that good again, so intentional and unintentional kitsch, ugly architecture and so on

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitchhiking in China with almost no money. It was infinitely strange, incredibly tiring, but afterall it was the most interesting journey in my life.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United States