• Conducting genealogical research since 2011
• Ph.D. in Economics, professor and educator
• Graduate of School of Practical Genealogy of the Russian National Library and Russian Genealogical Society
• Completed a course on Genetics at Novosibirsk State University

Why do I do genealogy?

Since I can remember, I have always had a keen interest in history and archaeology. As a child, I read a lot of books on military history and biographies. At university, I studied various fields of economics. I have always loved political maps. What I particularly enjoy to study is how the national borders moved and transformed across history, particularly in the 19th and 20th centuries. This background helps me immensely in my work: it allows me see right away, which country a particular city was part of, what kind of records and personal documents are available.

Through genealogy, I help my clients solve mysteries, locating documents and thinking out of the box. I save my clients' time and make the exciting process of finding out your family history easy and comfortable. My passion for solving riddles and finding answers for difficult questions manifested in 5 years of high-level Trivia championships across Russia and St. Petersburg.

Now I use my ability to find unorthodox and quick solutions in my work. In the past century, the world has seen two world wars, revolutions, and conflict. Documents and records moved constantly across borders and it's often very hard to track down this information. Population registers and census lists of one region are sometimes kept in another region. People who are not familiar with archival work are not used to spending long hours and often days looking for information and find it quite daunting. It's only natural that people want to study their family history in the comfort of their own homes, and not in a cold and dusty archive.

Genealogy is the field where I feel I can really be of service to people. I love what I do. It brings me joy to see that I can help people find relatives, unravel the mysteries of their family history, bring back memory and restore the good name of their ancestors.

I enjoy working with big structures - archives, organizations, and public servants.
Clients normally want to get documents as soon as possible. However, obtaining a response from archives can take between 4 weeks and 3 months. Waiting is no fun, and here you don't even have any guarantees that you will actually get what you are looking for. This is why I specialize in urgent search. People often turn to me in particularly demanding situations, where the documents are needed without delay.