Life should be a very simple thing but it isn’t easy to see

Born and grew up in St Petersburg, in love with my city, in love with this world. Always liked to draw, to create, passionated about art and crafts. I do illustration and ceramics. Enjoy sharing my love for creativity with other people and try to live with no expectations.

I enjoy meeting people and sharing: thoughts, dreams, ideas, feelings, food, fun. I definitely can say that it's the richest source of inspiration.
And now some random things about me:
- i consider our life as a miracle. i believe that everything is possible, you can change what ever, you just have to start from yourself. What is inside you will be around you
- i am a fan of a good wine and a good bread
- i like nature. It is a pity that we are more far from it nowadays, it really helps to keep the balance and harmony inside
- i don't like clichés and stereotypes, i'm trying to think out of them, to keep my perception more clear and traveling helps a lot.
- i appreciate good sense of humor and irony. It makes our life lighter
- i do love animals, especially birds because i think they are special
- when i travel i like to make urban sketches. this is how i stop run of time, relax and deep myself into location
- i am very curious about languages, i like to find similarities and think about hidden meanings of words.
-I can not imagine my life without art. I'm interested in all types, also history of art. I enjoy visiting exhibitions, museums, theatres.
- i am a bit obsesed about flea markets and any kind of old stuff
- I can play some guitare, two years ago i started to dance swing (boogie-woogie, lindy-hop, solojazz)
- i like to cook and to discover new recepies (or to made them up). I eat mostly vegeterian

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

CS is more than just a way to travel. For me it is special way of life, that gives the sense of freedom and shows our real kind nature. At some point i understood that the way how we percept a new place, a new city - it is always related to people that we meet there, it is not abstract facts about culture or sightseeing. It is people who make your travelling so real, who inspires you, who makes you happy.

Interests

Art and people, feelings and atmospheres, to do beautiful things, to cook vegetarian dishes, to think positive, to draw, to be open, jazz dancing, to ride a bike listening to a music, to notice, to discover, to watch and see, 'déjà vu' feeling, old photographs, French, musicians on the streets, that tiny moment between the last sounds of music and applause.

• arts
• books
• literature
• cooking
• vegetarian
• yoga
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• languages
• phylosophy
• conciousness
• hugs
• dreams
• sincerity
• weird tings
• tiny things

Music, Movies, and Books

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
Into the wild
La science des rêves
La belle verte
Waking Life
The dreamers
Emir Kusturica, Michel Gondry, Wes Anderson, Woody Allen
Sylvain Chomet. and many, many more
---------------------------------------
Indie rock, folk, rock-n-roll, classic, jazz, balkanian, gipsy
---------------------------------------
Camus, Dostoevsky, London, Bradbury, Harms, Kerouac, Saint-Exupéry, Brodsky, Tchekhov, Maugham
the doors of perception, hundred years of solitude..

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was born

Teach, Learn, Share

You never know what other people REALLY can teach you, so lets keep it as a surprise.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Everything good that can be shared

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey

•