I'm just this guy doing odd jobs (literally, odd jobs) in Saint-Petersburg, a city that I love to death but still all too often want to escape from.
I just turned 30 and it hurts.

Interests

Conversation, literature, cinema and music. Horseback riding once in a while. Taking a never-ending walk through life. I easily get interested in virtually anything, provided it's presented in an interesting way.

• literature
• singing
• wine
• news
• movies
• music
• equestrian
• swimming
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Bergman, Almodovar, Antonioni, Cubrick, Kaurismäki, Kieślowski, von Trier, Sokurov, Wenders, Tarkovskiy, Buñuel.

R.E.M., Radiohead, U2, Queen, Sting, Depeche Mode, Beatles, a-ha, Elvis, Sinatra, Dire Straits/Knopfler, Nirvana, Clapton, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Doors, Velvet Underground, Amy Winehouse, Anna Maria Jopek.

Updike, Tennessee Wiliams, Capote, Henry Miller, Salinger, Stainbeck, Fitzgerald/Wilde, Maugham, Galsworthy/Marquez, Rulfo, Sabato, Borges/Chekhov, Turgenev, Platonov/Abe, Hamsun, Camus

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Growing up to become me has proved a hell of a challenge.
Apart from that:
- singing in front of thousands of people
- interviewing some of my favourite writers (contemporary writers, not the ones mentioned above: those are all dead, as far as I know)
- swimming almost 3km because we had no other option
- receiving a second-degree burn from hot wine and laughing about it for about two hours
- and many others.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know how to survive in Russia, which involves so many practical skills that I wouldn't even know where to begin, listing them all. Or I could teach you one of the languages I fake fluency in.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Poland, Ukraine