St. Petersburg: I passed 24 yo Yulia three days in a row as she stood in her costume in the center of St. Petersburg.
Yulia, like so many others I met in Russia’s second city, said she moved here 4 years ago after falling in love with St. Petersburg’s architecture. ”It is so romantic,” she said of the city.
Raised in Murmansk, Yulia studied accounting at an institute in her hometown and worked in her profession. However, she was bored by the routine work and quit.
For the past month, she has been working at a restaurant, handing out flyers on the street and entertaining children inside the restaurant.
Yulia, who likes to read and write poetry in her free time, says its a temporary job until she ‘finds herself.’
However, she is enjoying herself in the meantime she says. People happily stop to photograph with her, she said.
‘’I am happy that I have a fun job that pays well,’’ she said.
