Yesterday (Thursday 13 August 2020) a friend emailed a photograph to us of Victor Ryabinin\u2019s recently completed and erected headstone. I was expecting the headstone to incorporate a photographic likeness of Victor\u2019s face, as most gravestones in Russia seem to display a portrait of the deceased, but the image on Victor\u2019s tombstone is more than that and all the more poignant for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It shows Victor sitting on a stool in his art studio. He is leaning nonchalantly in his chair, relaxed, unassuming, in tune with himself, his life and the world around him. His right arm is resting on one of his art-historian creations, his left arm cradling the base. The artwork is an assemblage, a composition of assorted K\u00f6nigsberg relics assembled icon-like within a frame, a symbolic reincarnation of parts that in their new unity pay homage to the unique bi-cultural character by which Victor defined the seamlessness of the K\u00f6nigsberg-Kaliningrad time continuum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The image depicts a man forever and inextricably connected with the subject of his life\u2019s work ~ K\u00f6nigsberg. It captures the eternal spiritual symbiosis that exists between each. It also captures the essence of the man himself: his unaffected attitude towards life and people, his open good-natured manner and his kind, calm and collected philosophical disposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Victor Ryabinin\u2019s Headstone K\u00f6nigsberg<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Victor was a larger than life person. He had a magnetic personality, first appreciated and then adored, and the fact that he is no longer part of life as we understand it is hard to accept, but the ethos and quality of this monument are a fitting tribute to him, both to the art-historian and the man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I look on this image it does not make missing him any easier. It captures who he was so well that it is difficult to gaze upon without wanting the yesterday we all once shared. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Consolation is all elusive, except for what we find in destiny and I cannot help believing in that respect that our loss is K\u00f6nigsberg\u2019s gain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rest in Peace Dear Friend<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Victor Ryabinin the Spirit of K\u00f6nigsberg<\/a><\/strong> Copyright \u00a9 2018-2021 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Victor\u2019s grave is adorned with a headstone befitting the artist and the man Published: 14 August 2020 Copyright \u00a9 2018-2021 Mick Hart. 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An artist who can hear angels speak<\/a><\/strong>
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Stanislav Konovalov (professional tour guide) ~ student and friend of Victor Ryabinin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n