It is made in a simple, but attractive style, Moldova’s President Mihai Ghimpu said after walking on the territory of the presidential residence in Condrita for about an hour. He went there on Sunday afternoon, accompanied by journalists. He said it was the first time that he visited the presidential residence that has been closed for the public so far. The acting director of the complex Gheorghe Cretu, who has been vice director until recently, could not answer many of the questions concerning the creature comforts of the former president. He said only that Vladimir Voronin used to travel to Condrita rather often, but not in winter. When he came, only the bodyguards accompanied him to the second floor of the residence, where there was his bedroom. The main house inherited from the first secretary of the Communist Party of the MSSR Ivan Bodiul has two stories and an attic. The first floor includes the kitchen and three bedrooms with bathrooms for the guests. The dining room has a fireplace and there is a deer head on the wall, which is a hunting trophy. There are two bedrooms at the second floor. The president’s bedroom, besides bathroom and jacuzzi, has a sauna. There is no furniture in the room. Vladimir Voronin took it when he left, together with the wine collection, hens, a cow with a calf and a horse. The furniture in the room that is opposite the main bedroom was purchased before 2001. There is also a Russian billiard table. Mihai Ghimpu tried it, but said that he likes lawn tennis more, adding smilingly that he needs a helicopter to examine the place and identify a field for tennis. Besides the principal villa, there are also two summer terraces built during Voronin’s presidency. The terrace near the lake is made of wood and is smaller. The other one erected above the cellar is larger and made of stone. It has a summer kitchen and an oven that has not been used yet. Only several jars with pickles and jams remained in the cellar. The henhouse is empty. As the acting director of the complex said, there were about 20 hens there, but there were probably much more fowls as the house is very large. Only the lake seems untouched. Two swans and several ducks were swimming there. Gheorghe Cretu said there is fish in the lake so that the acting head of state can fish whenever he likes. There is a cascade near the lake and a suspended bridge over the water. A mechanism used in winter warms the water and the lake does not freeze. Thus, the ducks are protected from foxes. The over 300 pheasants kept there were let free so that they breed naturally. “It’s not bad that they obtained freedom,” Mihai Ghimpu said. The residential residence in Condrita is surrounded by a 9-km long fence. One needs about two hours to go around it on food. The complex is looked after by 27 employees, except the guards. During the last month, the employees have been on leave as there was no money to pay them, but they did not have work to do as well. ”We must make an inventory,” Mihai Ghimpu said, adding that the residence in Condrita is administered by the State Chancellery. “We will see what there was, who appropriated things and who will be held accountable.”