Hi! I am a political activist from Russia and currently a student in Germany (lived in Munich for a year, switching to Berlin soon). I strongly believe that long trips is the best opportunity to take a long inner journey and reflect on yourself, so I‘ve been doing long eurotrips since early teenage years almost every season, experimentig with hitchhiking, backpacking and everything we all like

I am very open-minded, down to any activities and neat person.

inst: @larkmoktev
btw: i am 18, don’t know why this app wouldn’t let me change it

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

i am user to my own private version of Couchsurfing consisting of my friends all over Europe, but now that I am finding myself in more and more
“niche” places and ways to travel, I hope to find someone here

Interests

• writing
• literature
• poetry
• music festivals
• vegan
• running
• politics
• hiking
• hitchhiking
• art
• activism
• museums

Music, Movies, and Books

“classic” rock (the beatles, david bowie, the doors etc.) rhcp, green day, “alt” metal (bring me the horizon, fever 333, system of a down), jazz, hip-hop contemporary classical music (arvo part, vladimir martynov etc.) and whole bunch of russian rock and hip-hop

fav song: american pie by Don Mclean

books:“the vacation” by ray bradbury and “letter from the unknown woman by zweig,, dissident/gulag literature, 20th century poetry (mandelshtam, brodsky, dashevskiy, khlebnikov), antiutopias, russian classical literature (Bulgakov, Gogol, Chekhov) Nabokov, Hemingway + a whole bunch of slightly too realisitc political non-fiction

fav directors: miyadzaki, nolan, wenders, lynch, fincher, tarantino

+ the terminal, dead poets society, the cranes are flying, 12 angry men, it was just an accident, the astenich syndrome, in the mood for love, my friend Ivan Lapshin, airplane, mission: joy, the dictator + a whole bunch of sligtly unrealistic political and court thrillers

tv shows: parks and recreation, twin peaks, the office

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i hitchiked from germany to venice spending the night on the embankment. i got stranded at the cape of good hope in south africa alone with no internet , signal and money. it all happened in a span of 10 days

What I Can Share with Hosts

My passion of learning from different cultures and a few crazy stories from doing opposition activism in Russia

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Russian Federation