Escarlin Pozo
El Inmobiliario
SANTO DOMINGO. - When Anna Gladysheva was 24 years old, life presented her with a new personal challenge. While in her home country of Russia, having achieved several dreams, she began to feel the need to grow in a different direction.
Anna had completed two university degrees—one in teaching and translation of English, and another in economics with a specialization in business marketing—and thoughts swirled in her mind about which path to take and where else she could thrive.
While traveling from country to country, she worked as an English and Japanese translator, while also managing a language school she had founded. And, with that pace of life, she felt that her opportunities for advancement in her birthplace had been completely exhausted.
Remembering her love for Spanish and how much she enjoyed learning it while studying in the United States, she let her instincts guide her.
While researching, she remembered some friends who had settled in the Dominican Republic, which led her to consider the country as an option.
In 2007, she embarked on her journey to “Quisqueya La Bella” (the Dominican Republic), when she was only a month pregnant. Upon arriving, she inquired until she was sure she had reached the right place.
His first decision was to buy a plot of land before returning to Russia, where he later sold the business he had built, closed everything down, and "landed" in this nation.
“I came to this country knowing where I was going. In other words, I came prepared. I knew challenges awaited me,” she said, recalling her story.
Gladysheva, who today has two children of Dominican nationality, conveys a genuine love when she speaks of what really kept her attached to this land: the warmth of the people.
Her entry into the real estate sector was purely coincidental. When she settled in the country, the first thing she did was open a restaurant, thinking how romantic it would be to inaugurate a business from another culture.
But what she thought would be a good decision turned out to be an entrepreneurial idea that left her unsatisfied.
Anna Gladysheva, CEO/Owner of Arichy Real Estate. (EXTERNAL SOURCE).
During the months of his first year, he received several offers to venture into the real estate field.
They highlighted her fluency in several languages, but she immediately refused without a second thought. She understood that the art of being a salesperson was innate, a skill she hadn't even known she possessed at the time.
But one day everything changed. Anna decided to take the first step and accepted a position at a small real estate agency. In just three months there, she felt it was the perfect time to start her own company.
This is how she made her entrance to tell how and when she founded her agency, “Arichy Real Estate”, in 2008, and that in May of this year she will receive the “Caribbean Company of 2025” award in El Salvador.
In its early days, the business grew gradually, always focused on providing professional, high-quality service. They started with sales and rentals, later adding property management.
Four years later, Arichy expanded into property development and construction. Together with her husband, a civil engineer specializing in high-end finishes, they began creating projects from scratch.
Anna loves this land's paradisiacal places, the typical food, especially sancocho, as well as the rhythm of bachata and salsa, a musical genre that is also enjoyed in the country.
“I have Dominican citizenship, I feel Dominican. I feel very good in the country, I really do. I feel accepted and welcomed,” she expressed, suggesting that her identity is no longer defined by a document, but by her true feelings.
