films: Un Chien Andalou Vivre sa vie Nosferatu Metropolis 8 femmes music: metal French chansons classical music rock Russian traditional music books: Faust - Der Tragödie erster Teil (J. W. von Goethe) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Homo faber (Max Frisch) Narziss und Goldmund (Hermann Hesse) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) Also sprach Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) Die Klavierspielerin (Elfriede Jelinek)

- Skin-diving with manatees in Florida - walking through the corridors of El Prado and of the Galleria degli Uffizi - A 40 hours train journey from Samara to St.Petersburg - Drinking a glass of Gewürztraminer in front of the cathedral in Strasbourg