I was born and grew up in Western Siberia and 10 years ago moved to Paris.
I'm a rather introverted person, however I trully enjoy communicating with sensitive and intelligent people.
Not a big fan of crowded places, loud parties, beer and any strong alcohols (sorry to break your idea of Russian vodka-loving people ;)
However I do love long walks, cosy cafés, conversations about music, movies, life experiences, travelling, other cultures etc. I adore nature: forests, parks, warm seas, cold mountain rivers, lakes...
I trully enjoy learning foreign languages, recently I started learning Spanish and Turkish (very recently, so don't expect much from me!). I'm very fluent in French as well as in Russian (naturally, as it's my mother tongue).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

As I said before I'm an introvert and I guess couchsurfing is the perfect opportunity for me to try to open myself a bit more to the world and other people.

Interests

• perfumes
• traveling
• music
• languages
• cinema

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Sigur Rós, Smashing Pumpkins, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, The Doors, X Ambassadors, The Marias, Meg Myers, RHCP, M83, Sakanaction, Jamie Cullum, P!nk, Mike Oldfield, Alpha, Dobet Gnahore, Bat for Lashes, Dead Can Dance, Oh Wonder!, Ólafur Arnalds...

Films:
The Piano (Campion) / Le règne de la beauté (Arcand) / Der Krieger und die Kaiserin (Tykwer) / La double vie de Véronique (Kieslowski) / Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring (Kim Ki-duk) / The secret life of words (Coixet) / Romeo + Juliet (Luhrmann) / Drive (Refn) / In the mood for love (Wong Kar-wai) / Spirited Away (Miyazaki) / Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson) / After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda)

Books
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Márquez), Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), My Family and Other Animals (Gerald Durrell), Ronia the Robber's Daughter (Astrid Lindgren), The whole Moomin series by Tove Jansson,
(plus Hesse, Castaneda, Kundera, Nothomb, Bulgakov, Cortazar, Murakami... I used to read a lot before the Internet)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Went to Japan alone

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Indonesia, Japan, Montenegro, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Russian Federation