Gerard Depardieu and Michail Saakashvili were pleasant guests in the Carpathian residence of President of Ukraine

It is known that Christmas is a family holiday, when you want to see only close to you people and good friends. President of Ukraine Viktor Yuschenko is not exception, and his good friends were the guests to his residence in the Carpathians “Synehirya” in the village Hutta. Firstly President of Georgia Michail Saakashvili came, and then also a famous French actor Gerard Depardieu. On the 5, January they went together to the “Manyavsky skyt” that is located in the Bogorodchansky district of the Ivano-Frankivsk region, and the next day they spent on the traditional Hutsul market in Yaremcha.

On the market Depardieu was much opened and has an excellent mood – he was trying the majority of traditional boots and hats. The actor bought some Hutsul clothes and many souvenirs. As the journalist counted he spent there about 1000 USD, and was very satisfied. He gave a lot of authographs to the local people. Sellers were admired by this person.

Gerard Depardieu has been interested in Ukraine for a long time. He even thinks to own some wine producing factory in the Crimea or to purchase some other Ukrainian real estate. According to his words, for the first time he heard about this country from the books of Honore de Balzak who had a romance with daughter of the Ukrainian duke. The actor told that he respects the President of Ukraine and loves Ukraine very much.

Source: www.korrespondent.net