I'm just this guy doing odd jobs (literally, odd jobs) in Saint-Petersburg, a city that I love to death but still all too often want to escape from.
I just turned 30 and it hurts.

兴趣

Conversation, literature, cinema and music. Horseback riding once in a while. Taking a never-ending walk through life. I easily get interested in virtually anything, provided it's presented in an interesting way.

• literature
• singing
• wine
• news
• movies
• music
• equestrian
• swimming
• languages

音乐、电影和书籍

Bergman, Almodovar, Antonioni, Cubrick, Kaurismäki, Kieślowski, von Trier, Sokurov, Wenders, Tarkovskiy, Buñuel.

R.E.M., Radiohead, U2, Queen, Sting, Depeche Mode, Beatles, a-ha, Elvis, Sinatra, Dire Straits/Knopfler, Nirvana, Clapton, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Doors, Velvet Underground, Amy Winehouse, Anna Maria Jopek.

Updike, Tennessee Wiliams, Capote, Henry Miller, Salinger, Stainbeck, Fitzgerald/Wilde, Maugham, Galsworthy/Marquez, Rulfo, Sabato, Borges/Chekhov, Turgenev, Platonov/Abe, Hamsun, Camus

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Growing up to become me has proved a hell of a challenge.
Apart from that:
- singing in front of thousands of people
- interviewing some of my favourite writers (contemporary writers, not the ones mentioned above: those are all dead, as far as I know)
- swimming almost 3km because we had no other option
- receiving a second-degree burn from hot wine and laughing about it for about two hours
- and many others.

教，学，和分享

I know how to survive in Russia, which involves so many practical skills that I wouldn't even know where to begin, listing them all. Or I could teach you one of the languages I fake fluency in.

我游览过的国家

Austria, Belarus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine

我居住过的国家

Poland, Ukraine