Maria Zadorozhnaya

I feel proud when I manage to cope with my fears and when despite the lack of self-confidence I go on and results turn out to be great.

After I came from Kamchatka I understood that I want to go in for professional photography. When you see beautiful places it takes your breath away. I remember I thought then: “Oh my God! It’s so beautiful! And I can’t pass this beauty to people with my simple hand-held camera”.

It’s a great achievement for me when I myself manage to do something that only few people can.

If a model is clever a photographer has more luck.

I sing in my car so loudly that can become hoarse.

I don’t know what this is like to be jealous, I just feel happy for the person. Only I may think: “Oh, how I’d like to have it too!” (laughing)

I like very much to make unusual presents. Once I made myself a copy of an antique silver wine glass, the original of which is exhibited in the Hermitage Museum. I coped with difficulties, dirt and spoiled manicure, but finally I did it in a week.

Awful shoes, white socks when wearing black boots and a moustache are terrible.

It’s not enough to hear the group “Mumiy Troll”, you need to listen to it. You may sing a song and it’ll be easy to guess its meaning, but you could make a mystery out of it that only some people will manage to solve it. I like solving it. And that is a charm.

Jurisprudence is a good experience in my life but it’s not my life.

I want to get a second higher education in interior design sphere. I’ve done some repairs. It was nice, so I made up my mind to get some professional skills.

In Moscow people who wear flashy clothes think they are glamorous. But I think this is a bad taste and this is made just for show.

In 2004 during presidential elections I voted for Putin because when he had been in office I was totally satisfied with financial side of my life. I thought that it wouldn’t be bad to live four years more in the same way. (laughing)

I get the inspiration from the things around me. I just can go walking and stop to admire a beautiful tree.

Design might be cheap but good; however there must be some “wow!”-elements — accents that are more valuable than the whole mass.

I used to make meat dumplings with my mother when I was a child; moreover my father’s relatives come from Ukraine. That’s how my love to cooking started. Now I like doing different salads mixing unexpected ingredients and go to the cooking courses that are held by the “Gastronom” school.

Eight years ago when I was in the “Mumiy Troll” concert, I was dying to get to know all its members as ordinary people, to talk to them about life. And if somebody had told me my dream would have come true some day I’d have never believed him. But it did: several months ago I spent about a week with them while they were making a clip. The guys turned out to be very interesting people and I was very happy not to have been disappointed in them, and we became good friends.