My name is
Olga Alexandrovna Matyushkina-Gerke
(seriously!) but normally - by reasons
you can guess - I call myself either Matyushkina or - more often -
Gerke. :)My name is
Olga Alexandrovna Matyushkina-Gerke
(seriously!) but normally - by reasons
you can guess - I call myself either Matyushkina or - more often -
Gerke. :)
I live in Manchester, UK - a fast-growing English city, where people speak with quite a peculiar accent. :) Not that I speak without any - English is not my native tongue. As a matter of fact, I was born in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia). My family are still living there.
I moved here because my husband Nikita had obtained a job in UMIST.
We have found a lot of friends here and have some kind of a Russian community, but of course we don't confine ourselves only to our compatriots when choose our friends. :)
We have travelled a bit, lived for a while in France (Marseilles, Paris) and Austria and plan to visit Italy this year.
I happened to graduate as a lawyer from Department of Law at St.Petersburg State University, Russia and used to work as one back in Russia. But here I have sufficient excuses not to try to do this - at least for a while :).
Idleness is the mother of art :) - so, because I have plenty of time, I develop my fondness of reading and art :), and also I write short stories and essays for the Russian London Courier newspaper and draw caricatures and more "serious" pictures - mostly to amuse my friends.
Here you can see and read:
I have a little hobby - I adore pictures of small furry creatures, like koalas, chinchillas and odd guinea pigs. Have a quick glance here just to say "Ah! " :). Well, they are adorable - who would say otherwise??? :)
