other interests: art therapy, photography, arts&crafts, psychology, alternative medicine, esoterica, music, design, theatre, travelling...

There are so many.... auteur films and dance films, animation, good Russian, Holliwood and European comedies, dramas, soulful melodramas, thrillers...
Directors: Fellini, Kieslowski, Tarkovskii, Antonioni, Bergman, Wenders, Chaplin, Eisenstein, Ozu, Gaiday and Ryazanov (social comedies), Emil Lotyanu... contemporary: Pedro Almodovar, Jim Jarmush, Woodi Allen, Fatih Akin, Alexey Uchitel, some Spanish, French and holliwood movies…
Favourite animators - Y.Norshtein, especially "Hedgehog in the fog", F.Khitruk, A.Khrzhanovsky, series "Lullubies of the world"...

Bach, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Chajkovsky, Arvo Pyart..., world, ethno, klezmer, flamenco, art rock, pop, jazz, tango (especially Tanturi, D'Arienzo, Fresedo, Canaro and different milongas), neotango, guitar, art-rock, rock, jazz, pop, experimental, auteur songs (Russian soulful ballads...)... Beatles, Volkov Trio, Shilkloper, Farid Farjad, Misha Alperin, Souad Massi, Susheela Raman, Carla Bruni, Jacques Louissier Trio, Cordas do Sol, Iva Bittova, Bjork, Peter Gabriel, Madonna, Kimmo Pohjonen, Unkle, Zero, Pink Martini, Yann Tiersten, Chava Alberstein, King Crimson, California Guitar Trio, Iwan Minjuza, The Audreys, Missie Elliott, Anya, Vangelis, Cesaria Evora, Vertinsky, Vysotsky, ...........

Chekhov, Zweig, Bunin, Pushkin, Zoschenko, Averchenko, Shukshin, Bulgakov, Shakespeare, Jean Anui... poets – Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, Mandelshtam...