An interesting conversation with the Gypsy Baron.
How to steal like a Gypsy girls like Gypsies fighting with drug addicts and why do modern Gypsies there is no money? Talked to himself a Gypsy Baron Arthur M. Cherrim.
First, what did the Baron handed over a business card that barely contained all of his titles:
All the Gypsy Baron of Moldova;
Public and political figure of the Republic of Moldova and CIS countries;
World courts Commissioner for Romani Kris-Romani from Euro International Romani Union;
The President of the international charity Fund “Culture, development and the revival of the nation” under the name of Mircea Baron of Carara;
President Emeritus of the coalition of Roma NGOs of Republic of Moldova;
The Minister of foreign Affairs and the Minister of mass media of the Roma associations in Moldova:
And so on and so forth.
Arthur Cherar – son of the famous Gypsy Baron Mircea Cerra, who along with his brother Valentin in Soviet times made a fortune in sewing underwear under the brand name “Cherry”. Mircea Cerari and Valentin were among the first, if not the first millionaires in the Soviet Union. According to rumors, Mircea was even a private jet, and his shepherd were gold teeth. But rumors went around him so much that nothing can be certain.
Posh house at Gypsy hill in Soroca began to grow from mid-late ‘ 80s, just in the heyday of the cooperative business Carara. In 1998, Baron Mircea Cerari died, and his heir was Arthur. He says that his candidacy was approved at a full election, voted 98% of the Roma voters. The king he has not yet become.
The Baron is now 55 years old, he was born in 1960 in Soroca. After high school he studied at a local vocational school and farm-College, received the education of the merchandiser and the engineer. Then, in his own words, studied at MGIMO. None of the educational institutions, he never graduated, but once worked at the famous Gypsy theatre “Romen”. The Baron has a son Arthur, his future heir, and two daughters.
To communicate with the Gypsy Baron is very simple. You must have a business that can bring money. Well what did you expect – it’s the legendary Gypsy Baron!
Come to magpie and looking for Arthur. The first shows the direction of the Gypsy, little Gypsy insists that without his help we the house can not find, and needs to put him in the car. The house is 50 metres ahead on the same road.
Three-story brick house in the center Forty. Greets guests Arthur and his wife. “I have a good wife, but it is a pity that only one!” – just kidding, Baron. The house is not completed and probably never will be completed. Money from Roma over…
– All we have is one only no.
– What?
– Money!
My family, the family of the barons, more than a thousand years. One told me recently: “You know, Baron, you must have a name”. All! My father was the acknowledged Baron – I think that he was a king, a king, an Emperor! It’s great the Empire was. From all over the Soviet Union came to him: and for the money, and for advice, and to judge, and to ask for help. All came to Mircea Cherry.
From 65, the year it started… I was 5 years old then, and since my childhood went to all the gatherings, at all showdown. And, honestly, I don’t regret the fact that his entire adult life was the right hand of this man. He is worthy of respect: was handsome, clever, education – 5 classes. The hunger passed in the 46th year.
Grandfather came to Berlin, took Berlin, returned. Older sister father of Alun pulled water from a well, saw him, shouted “Daddy!”, she had a broken heart, and till evening she died. Here’s the tragedy: joy – heart breaking!
In the courtyard are two “Seagull” and some other clunkers. The Baron tells dreamy that “the Seagull” he will restore, and immediately boasts that one of the cars belonged to Andropov.
If it’s not a fucking custom, preserved the Union, we would have many wiped his nose. I must admit: we were the first millionaires were officially opened when the cooperative movement in the former Soviet Union. We have worked firm, we were the sponsors of all programs, including transmission of “Petalo Romano” (Gypsy Horseshoe)…
A machine in Soroca on the Russian rooms.
Gypsies in Soroca there, but most of the leaves. Build a house in the suburbs, Serpukhov, have dual citizenship. The houses here are left, don’t sell, but some already want to sell. They say: “What do I prospect? I’d better get myself there land somewhere in the Moscow region, Serpukhov, Chekhov, Pushkin. To me the perfect place. I will build there a hotel, and every day I will be the Uzbeks, the Tajiks come”.
“Oh! You have a Breitling!” Arthur two meters accurately determines brand watches and asks you to look at. Sit down at the table. Wife brings home wine, bacon, onions and radishes.
In Romania, the slippery Gypsies, including the king of Romanian Gypsies. Supposedly he’s the king… And who chose him? He came here for the first time when the Kingdom of heaven, his dad was alive and well, 3-4 years ago. When my dad was the acknowledged Baron of the Soviet Union, the best friend of Leonid Brezhnev, I was the only Roma in the Soviet Union, the first, who studied at the MGIMO Moscow… And who is he? I look at him and think: and you came to me to appoint? Yeah I don’t need your appointment… that’s not what from pride. Just be who you are, what you have done for people and in General – what did you do?
Then I said: his father worked with the cops. He salival cops, theirs “Securitate”… And there here on this field they got up. Then what? Another thing, when you’re like my father, was a sponsor of, and helped the poor, and fools. Have yourself taken, the latter gave – only it was good and it was peaceful. Maybe he wasn’t right. But he said, “You’re right, too. On – go do, that was good, that was the world. We have so little”.
I am among the people who say we should have kept their Republic, and no one joined. And we are for the Eastern partnership, former Soviet Union, we for the Customs Union. West – it’s crooks. Yes, maybe they all beautiful, but that’s not what we lived, what we know and what we’ve seen. They have a whole life in the credits, and they want us too dependent were loans.
It used to be: do whatever you want. Had no one who was not working. And he had! Let me the Lord will forgive, and excuse me, but I always say, sweeter, kinder, sometimes dumber, stronger and richer than the Russian people, there is no one in the world. Not that you came to visit me. I told them all – Romanian and all the rest – that near ass Russian can live for another 8,000 years.
Now made a formal request on my official status of the Gypsy king, the CIS and far abroad. There will be an official inauguration is not somewhere in Moscow, in Kiev or in Minsk, namely in Moldova. Even when Moldova will have this honor to all the Royal courts of the world came here for the inauguration? Including Elizabeth, Queen of England.
What I Chisinau? He nothing gives, he takes away from us. I here people live, work, I need to create jobs.
We found that Gypsies steal, too. But I don’t steal like they are stupid. If you’re clever, that you stole, right? 100 thousand, 200 thousand, a million dollars. Take it, spin it, earn it. And say: o Lord, forgive, please, I want to return what I stole, back, plus more on top… Put him under the front porch so in the morning he opened the door and found there… That’s when you have the blessing will be the blessing of God!
Although I’m not advocating that stealing. I am against theft, I am Orthodox. But actually, if you take on concepts – not the thieves, human – well, if you like this Kush got, you earned, untwisted, it is necessary to share. What you think you should have to. If you don’t have time, tell your son, grandson. Say: “We have kind of picked up once, and they came to fart. But with a fart and give it to us”.
Now a very bad situation of Gypsies all over the world. We have slightly affectional this situation financially. While the Union was, and 10 years after the Union, we normally had. But now impoverished. And if we will walk with you today on Magpies, you’ll see that actually people are not home, they are all on the road. Who is the Russian… Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, everywhere. Here is a Moldovan Gypsies.
Some media wrote that the family income of Carara may be 20-40 million euros per year. Doesn’t sound right.
Indeed, our people are talented in everything. Trade – they know how, good psychologists. People earn something. Part of the Roma involved in these ancient times, they are great. And that’s part of beginning to deal with garbage.
Am I doing it for themselves? I have nothing with me to the grave I won’t. Neither this house, which I want to raise another 10 floors up… to Make the office, to make the throne room… Plus I want to open an international Institute of the Barony. I held a General Assembly and said, “Let’s turn over here is not the Roma University and an international University centre with the faculty of tsiganologie”. And all gave their consent. Came to me with at the Sorbonne, in Paris, and said, “Than need be, we’ll help you”.
In addition to the “faculty of tsiganologie”, Arthur wants to open in Moldova the Roma newspaper and TV.
Magpies for all the Roma of the former Soviet Union is like the Mecca for all Muslims of the world heritage centre. Some don’t like that, well, we’re not cool for stealing. No, we are hardworking, we are blacksmiths, brother. We are the most ancient of the military industrial complex in the world, we obovale the arms of all the kings, emperors, Pharaoh – all-all. Even damask steel, Bulat. Should say “bootlet”. “Booth” is “a lot”, many layers of armor. Lat – and you have Russian left. We are the ancient Aryans, and we have Sanskrit.
Sometimes going to the Gypsy in the house – he for the mouse no piece of bread to gnaw. But the gold chain and have gold teeth. He himself forms the status. But I myself form the status of friends. Although I know that 50% of them enemies. I have always said: “don’t praise me because I know how much I weigh. You, on the contrary, I criticize, that I was more perfect.”
Gypsy weddings last three or four days. Earlier, in the Soviet Union, a week. All the magpies – the head of the police, the entire Executive Committee – all at our wedding. You may think the wedding was? We have the concert was not a wedding but, the play! Now, no less than 300-400 euros should be put on the table. But today 300-400 euros? But you’ve been on a spree for a thousand! Music is very dear to us. As the girl chooses the groom? Than Roma-addict, better Russian. Better yet, a Jew.
All guests Arthur plays the accordion and piano. Plays and sings great! Among his other talents – knowledge of several languages. He says that he knows 15, including, for example, Yiddish and Farsi.
I do not deny. There were times when cooked in the house on the blacktop, widening-pyralis, a lot of kids died from a drug overdose. Left mothers, wives, children, tears, you know… We put things in order. Cops aside and went there. Fucking needed full. Doused with gasoline and said, “what you got pizdyuley received for being so and so. Our children grow, we grow grandchildren, great-grandchildren there, and you want to capitalize on the tears – easy money, large. Well, Yes? You do something good, and the people, then…”.
We went into the house, bombed everything and said, one match and you’re going to burn together with their family members and their home, and we’ll say it was. And choose yourself: either you stop, you leave our city and go live there among strangers, not among the Gypsies. And from there, you will run, because the tail goes behind you, the tail is already there. And it says that you are done for. All: you’re a murderer. In Russia and Ukraine, and in the same Baltic – everywhere prevails this shirk-parka.
In Ukraine was that the Roma themselves were hooked – children and young people. These people completely lost sense of dignity. Humanity lost everything. So we had…
In the courtyard of the ruin…
Beyond the river is Ukraine, Vinnytsia region. People on the other side carries the steam. Arthur tells dreamy that he wants to build a bridge like in San Francisco and make it paid and use the money to rebuild the magpies.
People on the streets recognized him, but any special awe of the Baron do not. At some point hits on me Gypsy boy and begins to beg for wine, food and money. Arthur tries to drive it away from the car, but the boy does not listen. Arthur gets nervous and raises his voice, but the boy only laughs and continues to pull the hands to the bag.
The Empire began to crumble after the death of his father Arthur… Latest high-profile event that shocked the magpies, was his funeral. Before Cherry Mircea was buried, his body 40 days were kept in the house, so he was able to say goodbye everyone Gypsies of the world. For the Baron had to embalm and to impose a daily bed, where he lay, a ton of ice. Near the house ensemble performed “Lautari”, and the visitors were showing episodes from the life of the Baron.
During this time, brought from Italy a coffin for $14 thousand, and a family crypt laid out by the Indian tiles and spent it with electricity. In addition to the coffin in the crypt put the TV, computer, printer, Fax machine, gun, bottle of whiskey and even a set of shaving accessories Gillette. Rumor has it, that drove Yeshe and favorite “Volga” the Baron, but Arthur Cherry says that this is nonsense.
Today almost all the houses are abandoned or not completed. The magpies nobody left, and former wealth to the Baron are the only articles in the Soviet press, which told readers about dogs with gold teeth and personal aircraft.
