Geierrabe

Greetings from Russia,

  I'm Kristian. I joined postcrossing relatively recently, although I've known about it for a long time ago. Collecting postcards isn't new to me — my entire family on my mother's side has been doing this since the last century.

   I've been living in Saint Petersburg, Russia for all my 18 years. I'm a digital artist and draw in the romanticism, I also try myself in writing imaginary prose and playing violin. I'm studying to be a historian, I love all historical staff related to wars, writing, drawing and music. I mostly read books of classical literature and listen to classical music with rare exceptions.

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  I prefer postcards related to:
     ● Reproductions of paintings:
      — Animalism (artists such as Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, Alfred-Arthur Brunel de Neuville, Julius Adam, Charles van den Eycken, Horatio Henry Couldery, Thomas Blinks, Simon Simonsen, Arthur Wardle, Otto Eerelman, Charles-Olivier de Penne, William Henry Hamilton Trood, Maud Alice Earl);
      — Battle-piece painting (artists such as Jaroslav Věšín, Gottlob Alexander Sauerweid, Wilhelm-Adolf Ladurner, Alphonse de Neuville, Mikhail Ivanovich Avilov, Mitrofan Borissowitsch Grekow, Aleksandr Yurievich Averyanov, Alexey Petrovich Bogolyubov, Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (the 1812 year series), Bogdan Pavlovich Willewalde, Friedrich Kaiser, Wojciech Kossak, Adolf Iosifovich Charlemagne, Wiktor Mazurowski, Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky);
      — Portraits (artists such as Franz Krüger, Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Antoon van Dyck, Orest Adamovich Kiprensky, Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitsky);
      — History painting (artists such as Vasily Ivanovich Surikov, Charles Marion Russell, Andy Thomas, Jacques-Louis David, Gustaf Olof Cederström, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn).
     ● Aesthetics of music, drawing or writing.
     ● Mythology/Folklore.
     ● Anything related to the wars of the VIII-XIX centuries (e.g. military uniforms, generals, maps);
     ● Portraits and photographs of monarchs, writers & poets, artists and composers of the VII-XIX centuries;
     ● Fashion of the VIII-XIX centuries.

  Sorry I don't really fond of anything else that isn't in this list.

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  I'd really like you to recommend a book to me!
  Don't send a half-empty postcard! I'd also be interested to hear about:
     ● Any event from the history of your country that you find interesting;
     ● Your favorite poem (write at least a few lines from it);
     ● Who is your favorite artist, writer/poet or composer and why?

  Please sign the date of sending the postcard — this'll help me structure them.
  And If you're a native speaker of Italian or French, please feel free to write in your own language. I've been studying these languages for a while, so this'll be a good practice for me.
 
 
 
  Thanks,
До встречи!