CURRENT MISSION

I want to learn something new every day, to move, to love and to create.

ABOUT ME

I am a newbie here, planning to travel in the nearest future and to find new friends all over the world.

Was born in Arkhangelsk, Russia, living in St.Petersburg since 2003. I work as a copywriter and part-time as an interpreter (great thanks to my mother who taught me English since early childhood). My greatest passion is literature, so now I am planning to continue my studies as a postgraduate student and to write a PhD thesis about my favourite American author Denise Levertov).

I am keen on poetic translation. Among the authors I tried to translate there are American Beat and Beat-related authors: Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Amiri Baraka, Denise Levertov, Charles Bukowski, gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Want to know and try more, of different countries, centuries and movements ;)

I am a huge music fan, from classical and jazz to noise and industrial and from Irish folk to trip hop. I often attend live concerts in St.Petersburg and Moscow.

Sometimes I take part in eco-actions (such as forest plantation).

Very happy with my partner, who is also a huge meloman as well and is really keen on languages. In my family life, I am happy to realize that we can teach each other much - both in intellectual and psychological way.

Interests

Poetry, music, nature, religion (I am Catholic, but I cannot say I am very religious), drawing, poetic translation, Internet (LiveJournal, social networks).

• writing
• literature
• poetry
• concerts
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• jazz
• languages
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: "Wings Of Desire", "Until the End of the World" by Wim Wenders, "Three Colours" by Krzyztof Kieslowski, "Head-On" by Fatih Akin, "Dancer in the Dark" by Lars von Trier, "Mysterious Skin" by Gregg Araki.

Books: writings by Jerome David Salinger, Lewis Carroll, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Henry Miller, Hermann Hesse, Sasha Sokolov, Peter Handke, Maryse Conde, poetry by Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Osip Mandelstam, Velimir Khlebnikov

Music: Talking Heads & David Byrne, Bjork, Current 93, In Gowan Ring, Indochine, Les Rita Mitsouko, Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, Nico, Laurie Anderson, Sol Invictus, Chinawoman, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Suzanne Vega, Zaz, Einsturzende Neubauten, Acid Mothers Temple, Can, cool jazz, reggae & afrobeat, noise, chanson francais

Countries I’ve Visited

Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation