Hello, world!
My name is Stanislav Terentyev. I built this website to publish notes about the services I provide, both personally and as part of a team of like-minded individuals located in Moscow, Novosibirsk, Harbin, and Beijing.
In 1987, I started collecting stamps. Like many Soviet boys, I was fascinated by space, so I chose space exploration as the theme for my stamp collection. In 1986, Halley’s Comet passed by Earth, which led to the issuance of postage stamps, and that’s how a stamp from the People’s Post of China came into my hands, and I saw Chinese characters for the first time: 中国人民邮政.
I can’t say that Chinese characters captivated me immediately and for life, but after graduating from school, I stumbled upon a Japanese language self-study book in a bookstore, and after leafing through it and seeing the characters on its pages, I bought it. Thus began my journey into Oriental studies.
Having passed the entrance exams at Novosibirsk State University, I entered the Oriental Studies Department of the Humanities Faculty, but fate willed me to be assigned not to the Japanese, but to the Chinese group, as announced by the Dean of the Faculty. After some thought, I decided not to complain, and I have never regretted this unexpected turn in my life’s path.
As is common for many who study foreign languages (I would venture to suggest that in the case of the Chinese language, this is true for everyone), I took a Chinese name, which consisted of three Chinese characters that sounded like my Russian (Stas) name — sidasi in pinyin. Already finishing the spring semester of 2001 in Beijing, I met a Chinese calligrapher who suggested another name for me — shidasi in pinyin (history + achieve + erudition). This name, written in traditional Chinese characters, became the logo of this website. The first character in this name is a fairly common surname in China. Before moving from Beijing to the Moscow region, I lived for more than 3 years in a house with windows overlooking Shi Jia Hutong in pinyin (Shi family quarter), which I perceive as a very vivid sign of fate.