ABOUT ME

Extrovert with terrible communication skills.

PHILOSOPHY

Discipline and hedonism.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Depends on a season (I travel the whole summer) and the mood of my landlady. but don't hesitate to write me, some friends of mine may be able to host you if I can't. And I'm always glad to meet new people to show around or just sit somewhere in the pub.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Actually, I've been participating quite successfully for about two years before being registered on CS. Last year my friend and I met two nice girls from the Netherlands. Then some nice folks from Germany. I hope I'll find them there! This year I met amazing people from Belgium and a guy from Bulgaria, I thank them for being bloody patient, because my Dutch leaves a lot to be desired!

Interests

Due to my education, I'm always pleased to talk about literature, literary critisism, arts, theatre, but fuck, who cares? Unfortunately, these are my major hobbies. I like drunken existentialist talks in the kitchen, as they are so typically Russian. I love travelling (quite a surprise for couchsurfing participant, I know) for nothing else in my love makes me feel so alive.

• arts
• literature
• education
• cooking
• walking
• pub crawls
• traveling
• hiking
• teaching
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Jazz, some classic (Mahler, Handel), good male vocal, like Tom Waits or Nick Cave. Sometimes folk, e.g Tickawinda.

I love Terry Gilliam. Sometimes Trier, sometimes Wong Kar Wai.

Contemporary European literature. Coetzee was (and probably still is) one of my most favorite. American: Hemingway, Hejianian, Ashbery, Folkner. I wrote my diploma paper on Hemingway.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The very first one was when I skipped my winter exam and went hitch-hiking to who-knows-where monastery far from civilization. The most amazing was when I spent an unforgetable winter night in the forest walking 20 km along the narrow-gage railroad in the north of Russia. How in the world I love my passionate, burning mates.

Teach, Learn, Share

How to pretend to be a smart one when you're not. How to pretend to be an advanced snob, when you're just a beginner.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Can show great authentic and marginal places in Moscow, have some stories to tell and, most importantly, I cook.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey