I'm working and living in Saint Petersburg. I always warmly welcome people who come to Petersburg. And I will be happy to show authentic and nice places of the city! We can go to the historical part and just go to bars (I know a lot of classy bars here).

Some words about myself. I'm passionate about history and art. More I like travelling and meeting new people.

One year I worked in Spain where I participated in EVS project. In the north of Spain I managed different kind of art projects: exhibitions (photos, pics, pictures), poetry nights, cinema nights and so on. In fact, we are trying to overcome language obstacle, translating, combinating and using the difference of cultures and languages as "perks" in the results of art work.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Nice open-minded people, their personalities as well as their points of view can be regarded as my source of inspiration for my painting or for poems

Interests

I like art in all it's manifestations!
I'm doing translation of contemporary poems from different languages making a chain between contemporary poets of one country and other one. As well as I'm writing my own too.

I'm always ready to travel, to see magnificent places and meet outstanding people who see the world in the bubblegum colors!

I like do sketches everywhere, every time: streets, squares, nature. Then I see something special in obvious moment, in the routine of our days I can't resist to show it to you! I want you to see too that the value of the moment as well as of us hides in surroundings and we need only try to appreciate it more...

• arts
• writing
• poetry
• movies
• traveling
• painting
• languages
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Music is the integral component of the work/creating weeks but without fixed preferences, just following my mood I sometimes listen: Brandon Flowers , Walla, Strange Talk and so on. Anyway my morning without can't be easy go-going without fresh playlist that gives me energy for all day

As for literacy, I like... a lot!

American (naturalism and others) : John Steinbeck, Daniel Keyes,Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Matheson,
European literacy : Romain Gary, Erich Marie Remark, Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez ,George Orwell, Diana Jones
Russian classic: Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexander Kuprin
I have a passion to the Russian poems of the Silver Age: Alexander Blok, Zinaida Gippius, Anna Akhmatova

And my "idol" is Boris Pasternak who wrote the brilliant novel "Doctor Zhivago" for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In honour of his works I devoted 2 my exhibitions to his bright, full of live sincere poems and novel.

Anyway, I suppose that contemporary poetry Russian and Spanish one contain the same ideas and speak loudly about the same feelings through the ages.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I painted the walls of kitchen in the windsurf which is located near the forest in the center of Russia, it's exists! If you're curious you can see what is "that" here:
http://www.surf2free.ru/photo/leto/piratskaya-vecherinka.html and if you want there is an opportunity to participate in it as an international volunteer, just ask me how.

(The most remarkable part of this story was the fact that I paintedit the halls when it was "bastante" coldest September. So, it was some kind of a victim for art)

Teach, Learn, Share

I believe that every person can paint, you have doubts? I reject this your point!
I can learn you some basic rules, give me 5 min. and maybe later you became a real artist, why not to try? It's free)

For assuring that I can do it I inform you that I'm giving classes of academic painting technics for children and classes of sketch for people of all edges in Santiago (Spain) . I think that it is vital in your and my life to share, to teach others to do smth which for you it easy to excersise and in which you're good at.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, Spain