Let Me Introduce Myself

My name: Maksim

My native city: Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

Political credo: I am adherent of constitutional monarchy

Religion: I am Orthodox Christian

My interests: green tourism, trips in Carpathian Mountains, progressive rock & progressive metal, symphonic rock, ethnic music, sound engineering, songwriting, arrangement, literature, social journalism

My favorite music: Dream Theater, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Carl Orff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Modest Musorgsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Mekong Delta, Death

My favorite books: 'Crime and Punishment', 'The Idiot' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 'Borrowed Life' by Erich Maria Remarque, 'Martin Eden' by Jack London, 'Oliver Twist' by Charles Dickens, 'Taras Bul'ba' by Nikolai Gogol, 'Woe from Wit' by Aleksandr Griboyedov, 'The Old Man and the Sea' by Ernest Hemingway

Work experience and education: see my curriculum vitae

Why I've got such nickname?

Dr. - well-known English abbreviation for Doctor, 1) a person who treats patients, 2) a person who has a lot of knowledge. Once a long time ago my friends named me so, because I used to teach and preach (in annoying manner), as they said 'to treat' :). The another reason is I used to pretend to be clever, but to be sincere, I am not a rare genius :). Max - derives from name; von Stein - German language construction, von = from, Stein = stone

More about me please read on my web site