I have been trying to do magic since childhood.

Machine-assisted translation. The original Russian publication is linked below.

I have been trying to do magic since childhood. At the age of 5, I was convinced that I was a magician. That's how I imagined myself from childhood. It was a game of some sort at such a young age. When I grew up and learned to read, books on magic were my main reading. I first applied for a magic school at 15 in 2004. At that…