Hello everyone! We are a married couple from Russia. We are passionate about board games, love hiking, and adore pets. We can cook the most delicious country-style potatoes. Our favorite movie is The Lord of the Rings!

Kristina is a practicing artist and teacher. She loves children, nature, and fairy tales. She is not afraid of insects and knows how to work in the garden. She is needlewoman, who really like to paint, kneeting, embroider

Sasha is a pacifist. He plays the guitar, is interested in game development, and dreams of creating his own board game. He is writing a book about his life. He worked a lot with children in summer camps for 14 years. Created much role-playing games for it. Sasha was a guitar teacher for 3 years and worked as a sound engineer in drama-teather. Created a lot of interesting shows, concerts and performances. He once wrote music for his friend's computer game. He likes to watch an interesting movies and videoblogs and love to talk about art and music.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

I love traveling and telling other people about life in Russia. I can talk about how Russia has changed since the start of the war.

兴趣

• arts
• board games
• traveling
• music
• cinema
• game development
• larp
• quests

音乐、电影和书籍

Books:

The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, the Hobbit, Chehov, Paustovskiy, Alexandre Dumas, Krapivin, Lyman Frank Baum, Ray Douglas Bradbury, Arkadiy and Boris Strugatskie, Paulo Coelho, Robert Anson Heinlein, Lewis Carroll, Clive Staples Lewis

Movies:
Back to the Future 1, 2, 3; Lost Christmas, PK, By the Contour of the Face (P. Smirnov), The Notebook, The Terminal, Braveheart, Fearless, The Lord of the Rings (trilogy), Harry Potter (all parts), Avatar, What Dreams May Come, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Bicentennial Man, Forrest Gump, The Matrix (trilogy), Star Wars (6 episodes), Dead Poets Society, The Chorus, Interstate 60, Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Peaceful Warrior, Into the Wild, The Fountain, Night Watch, Day Watch, Mr. Nobody, Pay It Forward, I Am Sam, Groundhog Day, Big Fish, Lost in Translation, Never Back Down, Billy Elliot, A Walk to Remember, Gladiator, 300 Spartans, The Tree of Life, Robin Hood (2010), Vanilla Sky, Wolf's Rain (anime series), Allison and Lillia (anime series), The Last Samurai; The Book of Eli, The Island (P. Lungin), Hook, A Street Cat Named Bob, A Dog's Purpose, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Twelve, TV series "Spas Under the Birches", Welcome or No Trespassing, Only Old Men Are Going to Battle, The Butterfly Circus, Happiness Is...; The Geographer Drank His Globe Away, Patch Adams, Cast Away, The Family Man, Pop, Pirates of the Caribbean (all), The Spacewalker, August Rush, Spirited Away, Tales from Earthsea, Castle in the Sky, The Pursuit of Happyness, Interstellar, animated film "Treasure Planet", Titan A.E., The Iron Giant, The Astronaut Farmer, 3 Idiots, Rural Teacher (TV series), Brothers by Exchange (TV series), Great Teacher Onizuka (TV series, anime), The Last Holiday, Star Wars Episode 8 - The Last Jedi, Blade Runner 2049, Love and Pigeons, The Martian, Home Alone, Gremlins, Alien (1-3), mini-series Dune, Strict Regime Vacation (extended version), Edge of Tomorrow, Oblivion, Your Name (anime), The Wind Rises (anime), Howl's Moving Castle, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, The Shack, Tolkien, Above the Clouds, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Dreams Come True! The Zookeeper's Wife, We Bought a Zoo, Freedom Writers, The Triumph: The Ron Clark Story, Welcome to the Sticks, Weeds, The Mandalorian (TV series); Farscape (TV series), Home Alone, Jingle All the Way, Ip Man, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind; The Lone Ranger, Russian, Soviet, and Armenian cartoons.

Music:
Rock, Classical and Neoclassical music, hip-hop, ambient, instrumental, folk

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Saved many cats from hunger and death, leaved my motherland, quit the job I hated, opened up to my own dreams

教，学，和分享

I can take some lessons of guitar and sound engineering in drama, can talk some funny stories about work in summercamp. Can take some lessons in gamedesign of live-games. And of course I can teach Russian if you want :)

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

good mood, life experience, cook several delicious dishes of Russian and Finno-Ugric cuisine, talk about life in the post-Soviet space

我游览过的国家

Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russian Federation

我居住过的国家

Georgia, Russian Federation