Favourite Visual Artist
Edmund Dulac, Arthur Rackham, John William Waterhouse, Ivan Shishkin, Kay Nielsen, Sandro Botticelli
Favourite Movies
Tristan and Isolde, Shakespeare in Love, Maleficent, The Princess Bride, Amadeus, Doctor Zhivago, Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, The Sound of Music
Favourite TV Shows
Merlin, Game of Thrones, South Park, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Chelsea Lately, King of the Hill, Breaking Bad
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
The Who, Billy Joel, Queen, John Denver, Simon & Garfunkel, Rilo Kiley, Loreena McKennitt, Alexei Rybnikov, Russian folk music
Favourite Books
The Secret Garden, The Hunger Games, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Book Thief, The Secret Life of Bees, Chronicles of Narnia, Fahrenheit 451, Song of the Sparrow, Quiet Flows the Don, mainly fantasy and historical fiction
Favourite Writers
George R.R. Martin, Hans Christian Andersen
Favourite Games
The Sims 3, Sims Medieval, Civ V
Favourite Gaming Platform
PC
Tools of the Trade
Camera, pencil and paper
Other Interests
Russia, music, color guard, reading, photography, nature, Renaissance faires, hiking, trying to sing and play various instruments