Biography Yuri Romanov

About the first German saddle, about running in a gas mask in the Moscow military commandant’s office, about how to sell Mercedes correctly, about receiving “three stars” after an invitation to the unique and, of course, .. The preface all plans for this day fly to hell. This becomes clear by about the fourth hour of the conversation, on which he laid a maximum of two hours to two and a half.

The voice recorder on the verge of death, prepared questions are still full, and interrupting Romanov - a crime with pure water. Few people are able to captivate this way. As far as this person is interested in listening, it is just as difficult to transmit his words in the form of a text. So that it does not turn into a volume of memoirs of pages for two hundred. Therefore, this time it will not turn out to be a coherent and flat portrait article.

There will be a collection of short stories. About four tram stops when I was 7 years old, I found out that the Izmailovsky Park has a horse -sports school. It was an "petrel". 4 stops on the tram is a huge distance from our house to it to him. I terribly wanted to sign up for this school, but I did not venture to go there alone. Therefore, he gathered an initiative group from classmates, they did not take us, they said: "You are still small, come next year." After that, I began to come and just look from the side to the whole process: how they prepare horses, how they are cleared, saddled, taken to a parade ground.

The athletes were simply demigods for me: Nina Menkova, Sergey Brodsky, Natalya Filippova, Evgeny Kuzin, Evgeny Suslin ... The next year they wrapped me up again, and when I came a year later, everyone knew me well, I heard: “You know, the set was already over.” I have been going to you for two years! My parents knew nothing. I told my mother that I went to the library, and myself - to the stable.

Two months later, she, of course, suspected that I somehow frequented too much in the library, and on certain days. She asked to show the bag in which I wore my training pants and boots, smelled of horses. Fortunately, dad then gave good. He came to see my training, realized that this was all serious, and allowed me to do. Of course, I, like everyone else, adored the competition.

We have always expected jumping training most. I didn't even think about any exit. So, in the outlet, apparently, there was already a shortage of guys, and the position of Moskomport came out that only those teams in which there is a boy will have a set -off in team competitions. Only in our country, probably, this is possible! The coaches looked at those who are more or less beautifully sitting, and appointed: "This one, this one and this one." I was not lucky - and I started to go out.

Until I participated in tournaments, I did not like it. When something began to work out, the first results became noticeable, sports interest appeared. About Kalita and Running in the gas mask so that my mother is calm for my education, after school I entered the aircraft -building college at the Tupolev Design Bureau. For some reason, Mena aviation then interested, although at school I was a clear humanitarium.

Therefore, when a sopromat began in the technical school, I realized that this is still not mine ... Of course, I dedicated the main time to horses and output. Of course I wanted. But for this it was necessary to be called up. When I wrote the statement “I ask me to call me to the ranks of the Soviet Army ...”, the military commissar was very surprised, because I still had two years delay due to my studies.

That evening, when the agenda came, the mother almost turned gray - there was a war in Afghanistan, where everyone was sent in a row. The fact that I didn’t get there is just a case. I was called to a sports company. And this means that my service began with the course of the young fighter in the Taman division in Golitsyno. I will never forget the first three months in the army.

Of course, I waited for me to finally send me to CSKA, so I confidently told everyone that I was here for a short while. Then they explained to me that there were half of the company “who are here for a short time”: skaters, wrestlers, archers and others - all masters of sports, they are already serving, no one left. It turns out that the challenges for my transfer to CSKA, as well as to other athletes, came regularly.

They were thrown out at the headquarters. With the help of a friend of the clerk, I and two more children, the fencer and the fighter, managed to get business travelers to Moscow. It so happened that we appeared in the location of the part - as I remember now - on the street radio day later. For this we were sent to the neighboring building, the Moscow military commandant’s office, where they forced to run around the parade ground for a day in gas masks.

It was an amazing experience! The horses on which Kalita traveled in front of you could teach a trip better than any coach. After the Spartakiad, I served two more years, but they still waited for me in the "Petrel", and I returned there. On the mare Pava from under Sergei Brodsky, I then completed the master of sports.

About a year in Germany at the end of X, state financing of equestrian sports gradually came to naught, and we were forced to engage in sports and commercial activities. Sports ambitions were replaced by the need to just survive.We prepared horses and sold to Europe. I often showed sports horses to these Western merchants, one of which was a very famous German horse dealer of Detlef Zaul.

He invited me to work horses on his base in Germany. I agreed. It was a year. At Zaul, I worked as an birch on the same stable with Johnny Hilbrata. Today he trains the German exit team. The load was on horses per day. They paid a penny, but it was important for me to get this experience. We were trained, for example, the famous Herbert Rebine, who is now, unfortunately, died. I was terribly lucky!

Then I completely changed the idea of ​​the preparation of the horse. They explained to me that it is necessary to work more on basic things: to work out crossings, stretch horses, pump their backs. In addition, I saw how far veterinary has gone in Europe - a completely different level that is not achievable for us. I stayed there for a year. During this time, he was so tired and missed that he asked home for three days for family reasons.

But when I already arrived at the airport in Moscow to fly back, I changed my mind. Stayed in Russia. Zaul arrived a month later, brought my things I left for three days-I left everything there and said: "I immediately realized that you would not return." I began to work horses as I was taught in Germany, and everyone around was twisted with a finger at the temple: “Why do you need these transitions?

Work on Piaff, passage - do not do nonsense. ” I realized that I do not want to change our system and I could not, but the only way to get myself a really good horse is to accumulate money and buy. And I went to do business. About the benefit of smoking, one year in M ​​at a traffic light in the area of ​​the Belarusian station, I stopped at my Moskvich Moskvo near a beautiful car.

At the wheel there was a man whom my father had previously worked. Dad was an engineer, worked with cars - he released them on a line in a large fleet. I knew him well, and we were glad to see each other. He threw my business card with the words right out the window: “I work nearby. Come visit. ” The next day I came to the specified address. The salon was located right in the lobby of the Ice Palace on Leningradsky Prospekt.

I was introduced to the general director - he accidentally came across to us in the corridor. I began to speak with Mr. Braudler in his native German, who learned well after an internship in Germany. He appreciated and invited me to work, sell cars in the cabin. By that time, I had no idea how to do it. I have not heard anything about the automobile business at all. Pouring bright glossy booklets with beautiful machines, agreed, but asked for a month as a trial period.

In the cabin, I asked my colleagues: “Listen, here are four people here ... When a client comes in, who should approach him? Who should sell him a car? I came up with my tactics - I just stood near the entrance on the street and smoked. When someone approached, I asked: “And to whom? For the first month, I sold five cars from the floor.