I love travelling without any particular aim, exploring different cultures, getting into adventures and contemplating the world.

I like the good old times, historical reenactment and LARPs and medieval markets. I'm fascinated by the world before the XXc, especially European middle ages.

My fields of research are mythology, ethnography, anthropology, history, and cognitive sciences.

Also I like being in the nature, hiking, swimming, sailing, climbing rocks, walking in wild places, and quiet little towns and villages. I'm also into sports. I even work out regularly and do some martial arts.

I love philosophical discussions in good company, with generous amounts of wine and beer.

As a guest I'm quiet and non-intrusive and I'm totally ok if my host may be too busy to show me around. But it's also awesome to hang out together. Always good to hang out with the locals!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I started really using CS only a couple of months ago and immediately met wonderful people. I don't really know why this great idea hadn't occurred to me before...

Interests

• arts
• literature
• beauty
• music
• hiking
• sailing
• fencing
• martial arts
• anthropology
• cultural studies
• history
• languages
• philosophy
• nature
• mythology
• adventures
• fantasy
• larp
• hema
• medieval history
• fantasy books
• medievistics

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Umberto Eco, Ernst Juenger, Ladislav Klima, "Narziß und Goldmund" by Hesse, Bulgakov, Lovecraft, Hans Evers, William Butler Yeats, Ursula le Guin, "Gormenghast" by Mervin Peak, George Martin, J.R.R.Tolkien, Andrzej Sapkowski, Roger Zelazny, Neil Gaiman, Edgar Allan Poe, "Our Lady of the Assassins" by Vallejo, Gustav Meyrink, Arthur Machen, Oscar Wilde, A. Crowley, "The Philosophers' Stone" by M.Yourcenar, The Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart, etc.

I don't like antiutopias and existentialism. There is too much of it around and I don't feel the need to multiply these entities... In my opinion, the world needs more Arthurian legends, heroes and elves.

Music: classical, baroque, medieval, renaissance, folk, especially irish folk, celtic harp, ethnic music, pirate shanties, military marches, rock, metal;
Rammstein, Sabaton, Manowar, Iron Maiden, Dimmu Borgir, dark-cabaret, Voltaire, Gogol Bordello, The Doors, Johny Cash, The Coffinshakers, Ghoultown, Santiano, Die Streuner; Sopor Aeternus, etc etc etc

Movies & Shows: "I Sell the Dead", "Kytice", "Maj", "Deadman", almost all films by Tim Burton, "I am God / Naan Kadavul", "Lord of the Rings", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Sixshooter", "Withnail and I", "Tideland", "El laberinto del fauno", "Dellamorte Dellamore", "A Comedy Of Horrors" 1964, "Amadeus" (1984), "Desperate Romantics", "The Fourth Man", "The Night Porter", "Naked Breakfast", "Mulholland Drive", "Gothic" (1986), "Coraline", «Gormenghast», "Cabaret" (1972), "The Addams Family" (all of them), "The Phantom Of The Opera", some horrors by Dario Argento, "Господин Оформитель", "Собачье Сердце", everything by Hayao Miyazaki, "Cowboy Bebop", "Metalocalipse", "Pirates" by Polanski,

"Jeeves and Wooster", "Black Books", "Game of Thrones", "Peaky Blinders", "Ripper Street", "The Borgias" (Neil Jordan), "The Pillars of the Earth", "Jack of all Trades", "Hannibal", "Taboo", "Black Sails", "Vikings", "Versailles" and such. Though they may be not entirely historically correct, lol.

Games: The Witcher, Thief, Dishonored, Amnesia, Penumbra, Silent Hill series, Dragon Age, Morrowind, Skyrim, Heroes of Might and Magic III, The Wolf Among Us

Teach, Learn, Share

I can tell a lot of weird stories. That's for sure.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Nepal, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Tunisia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation