Hello, dear ladies and gentlemens...

If you want any biographical data - all right, here you are: Nady Karavaeva, the city of Saint Petersburg, was born on February, 8th, 1976.

And here we are finishing with all the dates - I think it's quite a poor entertainment. Instead of the listing of my awards" and events" I want to place here the listing of my thanks - I would like to THANK:

Paul - the little God of War,

My parents, grandmother and grandfather - thank you for my being,

Eugeny Sergeevich and Nina Fyodorovna - thank you for Paul's being,

Thanks to Ekaterina, Antonio, Kyrill, Dasha, Alexander Kuleshov and the theatre "Na Mohovoi", Eugenia Suhova, Lyudmila Foja, Julia Mihailova, Olga Bogdanova - thanks for their great friendship,

I would like to thank: Elena Laty; Zaugolnikov Ivan; aka Tuff for music; uncle Boris for Karelia and its honey; the Liane (I live on Pionerskaya, call me!), uncle Zhora for the classics;

Thanks to Ekaterina Manshavina, Alexandra Romashova, Leonid Fyodorov, Peter Mamonov, Alexander Kajdanovsky - for creativity,

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy - for "War and Peace",

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky - for his 14 volumes - the letters included,

Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov for "Heart of a Dog"

Strugatsky Brothers for "The Snail on the Slope " and " The Hailstones Doomed "

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Vladimir Nabokov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Daniel Kharms, Alexander Vertinsky, Ray Bradbury, Sergey Dovlatov, Phillip Pullman, and a little bit - to Max Frei.

Thanks to the jazz, blues, rock-and-roll, swing and classic music (it greatly inspires my work),

Thanks to Andrei Tarkovsky, Kurosawa, Parker, Kusturica, Tatarsky, Maslenikov (for his Sherlock Holmes" series), Jarmusch for "Deadman", Hitchcock for the style, Coppola for "Apocalypse", Miyazaki for "Spirited away"... "