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VENGERKA - VADIM KOLPAKOV & VIA ROMEN. Russian-Gypsy 7-string guitar.

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Please SUBSCRIBE: Vadim Kolpakov & Via Romen – Russian seven-string guitar. Video from the concert of Via Romen and Svetlana Portnyansky in Tel Aviv, Israel. Famous Russian-Gypsy tune – Vengerka performed by Vadim Kolpakov on Russian seven-string guitar, and his celebrated US-based Gypsy ensemble Via Romen. For more information visit and Russian-Gypsy guitar tradition goes back to the 18th century when the first Sokolovsky Gypsy choir (Russian “Соколовский хор“) was founded by the Count Orlov-Chesmensky in the 1770s who called on Ivan Sokolov, leader of the Roma (Gypsies) among his serfs, to perform at his estate outside Moscow. The Roma-serfs were granted their freedom in 1807, and Sokolov became the first in a dynasty of Gypsy choir leaders. The choir performed at the prestigious Yar restaurant in Moscow (“Соколовский хор у Яра“). When his descendant Grigory Sokolov died leadership passed to

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