ABOUT ME
I moved to France to study geography and urban planning several years ago.

My big passion is travel. To tell the truth, I feel fully alive only when I am up to a new journey or when I travel indeed. What is also worth mentioning is that I played in a small vanguard theatre in my home city, and people from this theatre are still like a family for me.

I can play piano a bit despite the fact that I have not been practising a lot since I finished my musical education. I have also tried playing guitar but I somehow stopped and that is why I'd like to start again in the future. Anyway, I listen to music so often that days which I spend without any music at all seem to be weird and unusual for me. Also my best friends offered me a nice hipster melodica so that I could have fun and maybe someday try a life of a street musician :)

What else? Since my childhood I have been a great dreamer and I have always escaped the reality via reading tons of books. Starting with adventure and fantasy and continuing with classic literature, non-fiction and popular science, reading has been my life companion for many years.

The last thing I need to mention is that I chose a completely different life path from what had been expected because I have studied in a lyceum of Physics and Mathematics for my last 4 years at school and I have been surrounded by really intelligent people there. Though I do not see myself as an engineer or a mathematician, I am very thankful for this opportunity to broaden my mind and learn how to see things from different perspectives.

PHILOSOPHY
''It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it - that's what gets results''

Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Just surfing right now and hoping to host in the future when I'll have a proper flat.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Helsinki, Prague, Dresden, Karlovy Vary, Veliky Novgorod, London, Edinburgh, Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Annecy, Grenoble, Montpellier, Nantes, Rennes, Strasbourg, Lille, Bruxelles, Berlin, Madrid, Venice, Rome

I travelled all over France partly by couchsurfing or thanks to the people I've met on couchsurfing.

Intereses

1. I'm definitely fond of music.

2. I can't help smiling while dancing lindy hop.

3. Classical: I love literature, photography, theatre, films, languages.

4. I really like cities. While travelling I prefer just strolling around the streets and looking at the buildings, at the spatial organisation of the city, noticing every small detail.

5. I have a strong belief that cycling is the best form of transportion around the city. When it is not too cold I always prefer my bicycle to the noisy and busy metro. Oh, and I plan to make a bicycle trip once (or twice, or more).

• arts
• writing
• literature
• architecture
• photography
• politics
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• guitar
• piano
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• swimming
• history
• languages
• mathematics
• physics
• science
• theatre
• rock
• lindy hop
• urbanism
• melodica
• roofing
• charleston

Música, películas y libros

Movies: Blues Brothers, Stalker, Knocking On Heaven's Door, Dead Man, Trainspotting, (500) Days of Summer, Night on Earth, The Aviator, The Pianist, Pride and Prejudice (1995), Lost highway, Mommy, Les Amours Imaginaires, The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Leon, Moonrise Kingdom, Like Minds, East of Eden, A Scanner Darkly

Books: Notre Dame de Paris, Lord of the Flies, The Lord of the Rings, The Brothers Karamazov, Terre des hommes, East of Eden, Doctor Zhivago, A Perfect Day for Bananafish, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Master and Margarita, A Hero of Our Time, The Cynics, The Gadfly, In Two Moods: Also, in Bad Society, The Catcher in the Rye, Harry Potter

Music: indie, trip-hop, rock, jazz, blues, alternative, heavy metal, electro, classical, hip-hop, grunge, post-punk, industrial, experimental, psychedelic, techno, folk

Algo increíble que he hecho

1. Rope jumping

2. Playing in a subway on New Year's Eve

3. Roofing in St. Petersburg

Enseña, aprende, comparte

I'm constantly learning and I'd love to continue to do so.

I can teach you some Russian, Russian history/literature/politics, English, French, basic Maths (who knows?), how to solve Rubick's cube (actually, I could but now I think I forgot the knowledge), how to make perfect tea (Russians are even more crazy about tea than English, on my word) or how to cook Russian bliny or borscht.

Países que he visitado

Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Países en los que he vivido

France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom