In my second year, I took additional classes of Spanish and started learning Italian and Portuguese by myself. While studying these four languages, I gradually realized how incredibly similar Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French are and how amazing it would be to have a special course which would enable students to learn them at the same time in order to get a certain level of knowledge of the four major Romance languages.

After graduation, I took a postgraduate course in the methodology of foreign languages teaching. My PhD dissertation was dedicated to the teaching of Romance languages in comparison. In 2013, I defended my PhD thesis at Moscow State University of Humanities named after M.A. Sholokhov and, at the same time, my career as a university teacher began. 

In 2015 I started to search for a book that would teach Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French simultaneously but, to my surprise and regret, a book like that had never been written. So I decided to write a Comparative Grammar of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French to use it in my own future courses.