Booklover and street photographer. That's all me.

Guide of interesting places in Nizhny Novgorod:
http://issuu.com/77182/docs/guid#

If you ever decide to visit Russia, please read this rather funny but still helpful information: http://www.trevorabroad.com/russian-taboo.html

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Unfortunately, at the moment I'm living in a rented appartment with hardly any place for me, not to speak of guests...But I'll be most glad to show you around Oxford!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Being quite busy (working from 8 to 5 and doing a master's degree), I'm trying to look through all requests.
I don't know why but it's always has smth to do with my Birthday!) On my Birthday in 2009, I was a kind of a "city guide" for an English guy during his trip on the Transsiberian Express. In 2013, I managed to celebrate my b-day in 3 different cities in Israel in one day! All this due to Couchsurfing and amazing people participating in it.

Interests

People and cultures, good music, photography, foreign languages, Latin, literature, Modernism, Symbolism, nonsense; absurd, philosophy, aesthetics, movies, travelling, bicycle, volunteering, arts and crafts

• cats
• arts
• literature
• photography
• walking
• crafts
• flying
• movies
• traveling
• music
• olympics
• swimming
• languages
• tourism
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

I can't live without music: Balkan-Klezmer, 60ies, Ambient, trip-hop, Jazz, Blues, funk, folk, rock, electronic, classical and piano music (Ludovico Einaudi), OST, Musicals, Depeche Mode, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Rolling Stones, etc.
Long time ago I graduated from music school so I was able to play piano, but now I can only sing)

Movies: BBC adaptations, old movies with Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire), early Woody Allen, one of my absolute favorites is "In the Mood for Love" by Wong Kar-wai, Mar adentro, The Pianist, Life is Beautiful, Big Fish, The Fisher King, Dancer in the Dark, Stranger than Paradise, Donnie Darko, Underground, Big Lebovski, In Bruges, Monthy Python, The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, The Terminal, Rainman, the Prestige, Inception; some French movies - Un homme et une femme, Les Choristes, Intouchables; and German - Vier Minuten, Gegen die Wand.

Books: though they say reading is an intelligent way of not having to think, still I love Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Fitzgerald, Remarque, Tom Wolfe, Thomas Eliot, Martin McDonagh, Romain Gary, Henri Troyat, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt; Dostoyevsky, Brodsky, Nabokov, Mandelstam, Marienhof, Sergei Dovlatov and many-many others

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Flying to Bali
Jumping from the pier in Georgia
Swimming in the Sea of Galilee (as walking didn't work)
Participating in Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games
Kissing a stranger in London
Getting into Oxford on a full scholarship

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you some languages (e.g. Latin, English, Russian)

Countries I’ve Visited

Georgia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Israel, Scotland, Singapore, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, United Kingdom