My relationship with horses started when I was about 3 years old. My mother took me to the Moscow Zoo where I was photographed sitting on a pony. A year later, at 4 years old, I posed at the Zoo sitting on the same pony. Next time we went to the Zoo, I was 9, and I would never be able to sit on a pony that was now too small…
…which hardly discouraged either me, or my mum, for, when I was 7, I already climbed a camel.
I rode a horse a few times in my life. The photograph here was taken when I was yet living in Moscow, on the evening I had a walk at the famous Gorky Park. Later, at Sokolniki Park, I very strangely bonded with a horse at the equestrian show.
I have friends and colleagues in Moscow and England who are serious about horseriding. I am not yet… although I did win 50GBP at the Grand National once.