CURRENT MISSION

saving the planet from stupidity

PHILOSOPHY

"Tomorrow a new renaissance must begin. Many know this. But where is this tomorrow, when will it begin, and what will the last night be like?...
It is time to ready ourselves. It is time to learn how to compose hymns in order to greet the promised coming in a fitting way...Continuing to live like this is impossible...
But how does one compose hymns? How does one learn this forgotten art? And how, especially, does one create a hymn that will remain continually vital, that will contain the dancing rhythm of life, the everyday motions of human activity? Doesn't the desire to compose such a hymn seem kind of funny in these days that are shackled by ugliness, epidemics of rationality, and the technology of machines; in these days that are marked by the systemic disfigurement of nature, gloomy despondence and an incited battle for existence? Isn't it kind of funny if you consider our clothing, our noisy streets that have grown dark in a sea of wires? Isn't it kind of funny if you consider all the depravity and cruelty of our morals? So, let it be funny, but let it be, for it is necessary. We need to remember this, to get used to the idea, as suggestive forms and inspired hints appear, and a clew begins to be wound, the thread of which no strength will be able to cut. And people will create new art, establish new kinds of interrelationships, a new way of life, whose conditions we have yet to dream of."

Alexander Benois, 1909
"Awaiting the hymn to Apollo"

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau
"Walden"

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. DISCOVER."

Mark Twain

Interests

listening to music, dreaming, playing the piano and singing, playing the guitar, classic music, Bach , Mozart, Tschaikowski, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Jazz, Swing, Dancing, Swingdance, drinking wine, reading, classic literature, theatre, opera, ballet, going for a walk, talking, discussions, doing sport, russian language, russian culture, other languages and cultures, history, modern history, russian history, travelling, political philosophy, politics, arts, painting, joking and other silly things...

• arts
• culture
• literature
• singing
• dancing
• ballet dancing
• wine
• drinking
• clothing
• politics
• technology
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• magic
• music
• jazz
• guitar
• piano
• opera
• sailing
• sports
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

I like books and films which have the power to tell one something about life and to discover unknown places and thoughts. A good film can be implemented in real life - might be an abstract of it but always clearifies a truth. In other words it should rather take our soul to dream or the mind to deal with society - with reality. What is essential and what is poor? For what we stay alive for?
So here were are: Solaris by Tarkovsky and Persepolis.
99 francs, Drei Farben Blau by Kieślowski and The Fabulous World Of Amelie as well as Mr. Nobody are others, which I pretty much enjoyed.
I'm not a fast reader but I adore books, like libraries and can hardly pass by a bookshop without having a look. I read a great deal by Maugham and consider him to be one of the greatest authors of the 20th century - most probably one of the best observers of relationsships between menkind (Of Human Bondage, Moon and Sixpence, the Magician). I also like Herman Hesse, believing that nobody ever described the inner conflict of human beings better (Siddartha, Das Glasperlenspiel, Steppenwolf), as well as Theodore Dreiser and John Fowles.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most amazing "things" I have seen, are the people I have met with. There are hundreds of them - those who I had overseen for too long, those who I liked immediately, those who I have loved, those who have been kind to me and those who have taught me a lesson. I hope to see them all again and many more.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm a pretty logical thinker. Insofar I have a talent to find weak points in argumentations and written papers (as long as they are not my own ;).
I use to play the piano since I'm 6, so I like to play with others and to show those who never played the magic of music: It's so easy - just put your finger down and listen :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, France, Germany, Monaco, Poland, Russian Federation, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Russian Federation