A journalist from Saint-Petersburg. Trying to listen more, pay attention to details and be open-minded. Have been studying and living in the U.S, now I am
back home.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love to meet and get to know different people and hear their stories.

Interests

Ancient and buddhist philosophy, existentialism

Russian literature - mainly novels of Golden Age, poetry from Silver Age, some Soviet writers.
German literature of 19th century and the beginning of 20th.
Japanese literature of the 20th century.
American literature of beat generation, some postwar's books and contemporary American literature.

Music: Psychedelic Rock (mainly American bands 1960-70s), Blues rock, Post-punk, Darkwave, Shoegaze, British Invasion

Russian history - mainly of Soviet era.

Love art, architecture, classical music, but still don't know too much about them.

Hitchhiking and camping are one of the greatest things.

• literature
• music
• backpacking
• journalism
• phylosophy
• reading books
• theatre
• hichhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Books by: Herman Hesse, Sylvia Plath, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Yukio Mishima, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Berdyaev, Thomas Mann, Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac.

Films by: Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alfred Hitchcock,  Milos Forman, Lars von Trier, Lasse Hallstrom

Music by: Joy Division, The Doors, Taking heads, A Silver Mt. Zion, My dad is dead, Carissa's weird, きのこ帝国, The hotel books, Июльские дни, Помни имя своё, The Vaccines, Johnny Cash, Majical Cloudz, Grave babies, Parkway drive, Neutral milk hotel, Radiohead, Björk, Janis Joplin.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Meeting lots of wonderful and talented people.

Teach, Learn, Share

Truly love to listen to people who are experienced in different scientific areas, passionate about their professions.
I can share some stuff about literature and Russian culture.

Every person is uniq and deserves to be heard.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, Georgia, Germany, Netherlands, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, United States