Date of birth: December 22nd, 1981

Place of birth: St. Petersburg, Russia

Stage name: Mona (also Lorelei)

Favourite modern poets: Havard Ellefsen (Mortiis), Frank Wenner.

Instruments: other then singing, I also play a guitar, piano and a bass guitar

Education: successfully graduated the Social Science College (psychology, sociology and history) and formed a band named "Forume" with Jan and Jonathan. After 3 years the group has fallen to pieces and I became a member of "Vinculum", in which I`m the lead singer still.

In the meantime, I had the pleasure to play and sing in a few more bands, but due to my short membership and lack of progress I found that these bands are not worth mentioning. Singing blues, doom, gothic metal, heavy metal, mood blues, ballads, been just a guitar player or a background vocalist... does it really worth mentioning?

Since the earliest youth I have dreamt to become a singer and... here I am, against all odds! Likewise, lately I have developed enormous interest in webmastering (just another muse, I guess), which is what occupies my attention lately.

But as for interests in general... Well, they are ranging from Greek mythology and philosophy, Medieval and Gothic poetry, classical Russian and French literature, and anything else fascinating in between, including Far East culture, Feng-Shui, Buddhism; Indian culture and Hinduism; Roman Empire, Australian wild nature, Gypsy folklore, Morocco folklore, and many more... I love to dance, to sing live, to enjoy life, or sometimes just to sit at a night of a full moon in the garden and play a guitar, or write a song...