Books. I like to read about France and Great Britain in the 19th century. Jane Austen “Emma”, “Pride and Prejudice”, “Sense and Sensibility”, “Mansfield Park”, "Persuasion", "Northanger Abbey"; Elza Triole "Roses en credit"; Thomas Hardy “Tess of the D’Urbervilles”; George Elliot “The Mill on the Floss”; Guy de Maupassant; Gustave Flaubert “Madame Bovary”; Anthony Trollope “ Barchester Towers” and others.
I also like literature in the modern style. D.H. Lawrence “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”; Virginia Wolf; Nathalie Sarraute; Eugene Ionesco “Rhinoceros”; John Fauls “The French Lieutenant’s Woman”.
I also like historical-romantic fiction. Novels by Mary Balogh and Lisa Kleypas.
Music. I have a synthesizer and I learn to play it.
I like pop, classical, Latino music. I like Enrique Iglesias, Boris Novkovic, Alsou. Some songs by Kristina Orbakayte, Abraham Rousso, Dana International, Joe Dassin, Mireille Mathieu.
Actresses. Charlize Theron, Julia Roberts, Romola Garai, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sophie Marceau, Helene Rolles.
Actors. Diego Luna, Olivier Martinez, Richard Gere, Stuart Townsand, Orlando Bloom, Keanu Reeves, Anthony Dupray, Renaud Roussel, Pierre Cosso, Adriano Celentano, Nino Castelnuovo, Andriy Danilko.
Films. I like French and Sovietic movies. Sometimes I like only the first part of the film and would change the end of it. My favourite film is Dirty Dancing 2 Havana Nights.
La Boum, La Boum 2; Student; Stealing Heaven, Head in the Clouds (first part), Unfaithful (first part), Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Three men and a baby, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Toy, Mon pere, ce heros, Three nuts for Cindirella.
Sovietic – about Shurik, Zhenatiy Holostyak, Shkolniy Vals, Devchata, Prihodite Zavtra, Ironia Sudbi ili S Legkim Parom, Sluzhebniy Roman, Ivan Vasilevich menyaet professiyu, Show-boy.
Cartoons. I like Sovietic cartoons. About Vinnie the Pooh, Krokodil Gena i Cheburashka, Dyadya Fedor, pes i kot and others.
TV serials. Premiers Baisers, Helene et les garcons, Tropicanka, Sous le soleil de Saint-Tropez, Les Annees Fac., Slave Izaura, Nobody except you.
Sport. Tennis, table tennis, golf.
Ukrainian and Russian writers. Ivan Franko “Faded Leaves”, Ivan Nechuy-Levitskiy “The Kaydash’s Family”, Lesya Ukrainka ‘Forest’s Song”, Lev Tolstoy “War and Peace”.
Child literature. Nosov; Nestayko; Nosov "Neznayka"; Astrid Lindgren “Karlson on the roof”, “Emil from Lonneberga”, “Ronia, the robber’s daughter”; The Red Hat; Three Little Pigs; Cindirella; Inch-girl Dyuymovochka; Adventure of Karandash and Samodelkin; Uncle Fedor, Pes i Kot; Krokodil Gena i Cheburashka.
Painters and Paintings. I like to paint by watercolours, aquarelle pencils. I paint in the style of impressionism and modern. I paint nature and sea views.
I like impressionist, French paysagistes and portraitists and painters of modern style. Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Paul Gogin, Pierre-August Renoir, Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Camille Pissarro, Georges Seurrat, Alfred Sisley, Georges Lemmen.
Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Juan Miro, Rothko.
British painters – John Consteble, William Turner.
Russian and Ukrainian painthers – Vasnetsov (fairy-tales’ views), Ayvazovskiy (sea views), Shishkin (forest’s views), Murashko (nature views, people), Levitan (views of Russian nature).
Dances. I was studying classical and Latino dances in a dancing school. My favourite dance is tango. I also studied – waltz, Vienna waltz, waltz Boston, Argentinean tango, European tango, jitterbug American, cha-cha-cha, salsa, samba, lambada, jive, rumba, foxtrot. From Latino dances cha-cha-cha is nice and rumba is very melodic. I like TV programme show Dancing with the Stars.
Study Languages. I can speak English and French. I study more French and now I study Spanish. Ukrainian is my native language, I can speak Russian as well as native. I can understand Belorussian, some from Italian, Polish, Slovak and Czech. I was studying German also but I do not use it. In the University I was studying Latin.
I know English the best, I like French and Spanish the best.
Architecture. Versailles, palaces and parks, la Tour Eiffel, hotel in the form of a ship in Benalmadena, Spain, monument to Kiev founders.
Museums. D’Orsay’, le Louvre.
Views. La Tour Eiffel, sea near Velez-Malaga in Spain, musical fountains in Metz, Versailles and its park.
Animals. Cats.
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Read, write stories, paint pictures, travel, dance Latin-American and classical dances, play the synthesizer and the piano, be model, photographer, designer, architect, private teacher, cinema director, operator, scenario writer, guide for excursions, librarian in my own library, drive a car, sew dresses and suits, make adornments and decorations from beads, write diary of traveler and nature observer, study languages, astronomy, cosmos, medicine, ecology and human ecology, learn about nature, animals and plants, art, painters and paintings, musician and composers, famous people, different countries by books, films and in real, especially about France and Spain, about castles of France, watch TV, listen to music, go shopping, take care of cats, work in a garden.
Collections. Dolls in national suits, post-cards from different countries, magnets, photos of famous handsome and clever men, all books by Jane Austen, Mary Balogh, Lisa Kleypas, Suzanne Enoch, Joan Wolf, Elaine Fox, Elizabeth Boyle, all songs and words to them by Enrique Iglesias.
When a child, I was collecting stamps, fantics from chewing-gums and sweets, cockle-shells, mussels, badges, calendars. I made puzzles, model and mould from plasticine and clay, knit, embroider, sew dresses and suits for dolls.
Indian movies. Not Stolen Bride, So, what, fell in love?, Bride and Prejudice.
Indian actors. Shah Rukh Khan, Ritik Roshan, Vivek Oberoi.
Indian actresses. Kajol, Aishwarya Rai.
Documental films. About different countries, nature, animals, for example, traveling with Pavel Lyubimtsev, Travel Guide around Europe.
I also like to read historical-romantic fiction books. Novels by Mary Balogh, Lisa Kleypas, Suzanne Enoch, Joan Wolf, Susan Johnson, Patricia Cabot, Cynthia Kirk, Elaine Fox, Elizabeth Boyle, Patricia Coughlin, Leslie O’Grady, Mary Jo Putney, Anne Marie Winston, Catherine Anderson.
Books about nature. V. Bianki, K. Paustovskiy, G. Skrebitskiy, N. Sladkov.
Books about different countries. Travel Guides, books by Pavel Lyubimtsev.
Magazines. About famous people.
Actors. Pavel Lyubimtsev Liberman, Alex Hyde-White (David Morse in Pretty Woman), Martin Henderson (Mr. Darcy in Bride and Prejudice), Iliya Shakuvov, Marcin Mroczek, Rafal Mroczek, Christophe Rippert (Luc in Premiers Baisers), Umberto Orsini, Frederic Lagache (Christopher in Emmanuelle 2), Peter Coyote (Alex Winckler in Bon Voyage with Isabelle Adjani), Dermot Mulroney.
Actresses. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jessica Alba, Sylvia Kristel.
Movies. The fruit is ripe (Grecheskaya smokovnitsa), Bezumno vlyublenniy, Ukroshchenie stroptivogo, Big Observing Wheel, Pretty Woman, Beregite zhenshchin, Emmanuelle, Emmanuelle 2.
Books. Emmanuelle by Emmanuelle Arsan, “Jane Aire” Charlotte Bronte, “The scarlet sails” Aleksandr Green.
My stories. The first story was written in 2000. Most of stories are about love, with psychological and erotic episodes. By style they resemble works by Jane Austen, Mary Balogh, Lisa Kleypas, Elza Triole. Some ideas about modern style are from D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf.
Others. I am a Lady. I do not smoke and do not drink alcohol. I think Paris Hilton, Bill Gates and Hubert de Givenchy are nice. I like style of clothes of Tommy Hilfiger and Victoria Beckham. I have cats. I have drivers’ license. I do not visit night clubs. I am Ukrainian but I consider myself just European.