{"id":248,"date":"2019-11-23T17:39:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T17:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:31:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T10:31:45","slug":"the-tilsit-treaty-and-rhythms-of-kaliningrad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/the-tilsit-treaty-and-rhythms-of-kaliningrad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tilsit Treaty and Rhythms of Kaliningrad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Tilsit Treaty and Rhythms of Kaliningrad<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

19 October 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former K\u00f6nigsberg Stock Exchange, aka the Khudozhestvennaya Galereya, is home to a permanent exhibition, the title of which is The Shadow of K\u00f6nigsberg<\/em>. It also holds temporary exhibitions on a regular basis.  Two exhibitions attracted us recently, Alexander I and Napoleon Meeting on the Neman <\/em>and Rhythms of Kaliningrad<\/em>.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The K\u00f6nigsberg Stock Exchange (now the Khudozhestvennaya Galereya) is an impressive two-storey Neo-Renaissance-style building, which stands on the southern side of the Pregel River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The grand building, which\nopened in 1875, was the work of architect Heinrich Muller and Emil Hundrieser,\nthe latter to which is owed the external decoration, including the allegorical\nfigures at roof-top level and the two lions on either side of the entrance\nsteps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with most of K\u00f6nigsberg\u2019s municipal buildings, the Stock Exchange suffered extensive damage when bombed by the RAF in 1944 and again during the Siege of K\u00f6nigsberg in 1945. It is believed that it narrowly escaped the systematic demolition programme of what remained of K\u00f6nigsberg after the war, as the new owners and powers that were ~ the Soviets ~ identified Russian Neo-Classical features in its construction (pphhhewww!). Since the building was reprieved, reinstated and reconstructed in 1967, it has passed through various transitions and is today one of Kaliningrad\u2019s most important, and unequivocally, one of its most regal cultural centres [see the Tripadvisor<\/a> website for photographs of this magnificent building].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khudozhestvennaya Galereya<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Khudozhestvennaya Galereya stages changing exhibitions on a regular\nbasis. The building can accommodate two or three exhibitions at any one time,\ndepending, of course, on the size, using dedicated and versatile screening\nfacilities. To the right of the entrance hall and on the second floor, space is\nreserved for a permanent exhibition, The\nShadow of K\u00f6nigsberg<\/em>, which traces the history of this unique city and\nregion through the turbulent transitions of its 20th<\/sup> century\nhistory. Whether you are a professional historian, amateur historian, budding\nhistory scholar or are simply fascinated by the changing fortunes and character\nof K\u00f6nigsberg-Kaliningrad, The Shadow of K\u00f6nigsberg<\/em>\nprovides a pictorial timeline of indelible significance through drawings,\nsketches, paintings and photographs, supported by detailed models and\nelectronic simulation. Its depiction of pre-war K\u00f6nigsberg in contrast with its\npost-war ruins and subsequent Soviet inheritance and legacy, that of life lived\nfor three decades among weed-strewn, crumbling buildings, a hollowed out shell\nof a once noble city, has a pathos seldom encountered in the modern world we\ninhabit today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander I and Napoleon Meeting on the Neman<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition, Alexander I and Napoleon Meeting on the\nNeman<\/em> [River], opened in the former K\u00f6nigsberg Stock Exchange building, now\na cultural centre, on 19 October 2019 and runs until 15 December 2019. The\nexhibition is dedicated to one of the two Tilsit* Treaties, that which took\nplace on 7 July 1807 following Napoleon\u2019s victory in Friedland. The treaty,\nwhich was well-satirised in the British press of the time, examples of which\nare included in the exhibition, is unforgettable not least because it took\nplace on a purpose-built raft anchored in the middle of the Neman River. But\nits real importance was the ensuing impact it had on regional and world\ngeo-politics. The principal loser of the treaty was Prussia, which was forced\nto surrender almost 50 percent of its territory. Russia and France achieved a\npeaceful settlement, a settlement which not all Russian\u2019s were agreeable to,\nbut the peace only lasted five years: in 1812 Napoleon returned to the Neman\nRiver, crossing it this time with invasion in mind. Be this as it may, the treaty\ninspired numerous artistic representations, both in Europe and Russia. And this\nis what this exhibition is dedicated to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition contains\nabout 60 exhibits from the collection of The State Hermitage Museum in St\nPetersburg, including paintings, drawings and sculptures, as well as original\nuniforms of Russian and French soldiers and is complemented by works\ncontributed by the Kaliningrad Museum of Fine Arts and Private Collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Tilsit was renamed Sovetsk when the East Prussian region changed hands at the close of World War II. It is located in the Kaliningrad Oblast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rhythms of Kaliningrad<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Rhythms of Kaliningrad<\/em> exhibition comprised an eclectic selection of art ~ paintings, sketches, drawings, sculptures ~ and even elaborate contributions from the Kaliningrad region\u2019s world-renowned amber industry, examples of which included handmade jewellery of the most imaginative and exquisite calibre, highly detailed icons and an urn of Classical and Baroque  form lavishly adorned.  Designer clothing, handmade and avant-garde, added an unpredictable dimension to what was already an exotic and exhilarating showcase of regional artistic talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Taken as a collection, the thematic denominator subsumes the randomness of each subject into a distillation, and the compendium of impressions is a lyrical exposition that neither aggrandises nor underestimates the unique heritage, urban environment and natural images by which it is informed but rather acknowledges them and celebrates them as a compound expression of an esoteric experience. Sunsets across water, abstracts, natural landscapes, urban landscapes, pseudo-incarnations of K\u00f6nigsberg\u2019s nobility ~ the castle and the city\u2019s monuments ~ (none of which ever existed in the modern artist\u2019s memory), Expressionism, Impressionism, Surrealism, Realism, Painterly and the rest, a gamut of artistic subjects and the styles through which they are brought into being vying to define, striving to encapsulate what it is about this place, this city and its territory, that draws you inexorably into its soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A personal reflection<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Haunting painting of Konigsberg by Sherbak-Pyankova <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In delivering the essence of the exhibition\u2019s title, Rhythms of Kaliningrad<\/em>, no one artwork should be singled out for being lesser or greater than the others in its company, \u00a0but spectators and critics alike are fickle, prone, as we all are, to the common human failing for putting personal preference before impartiality, and thus although I would shy away from the impossible task of deciding which work of art was the best, whatever the given criteria, there was, inevitably, one among the paintings which resonated resoundingly with my not altogether impartial predilection for the sublime and metaphysical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This painting was by the artist Sherbak-Pyankova. It was the study of a K\u00f6nigsberg house, a villa, set back in its own grounds, surrounded by its own garden, demarcated by iron railings with a wrought iron gate of unusual splendour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naturally, reliant on the theme of the exhibition, the subject matter in and of itself was not by any means a surprising leap into incongruity, but to narrow down the appeal criteria not to what had been painted but the way in which it had been painted ~ no, more, much more than this ~ the manner of its composition, its inherent composition and the intrinsic affect it had upon me, is how I would like to proceed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this\nrespect I have no inclination to classify the artist\u2019s technique within a\nparticular school or style, because by doing so I would by default promote\ntaught technique above inspirational teaching and, ultimately, individual\ncreativity. My attraction to this piece of work was at once instantaneous ~ an\nimpulse, a reaction ~ the rationalisation that ensued, if indeed you can call\nit this, being a process of thought, of mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I first\nexamined the painting I was, as is the norm, standing relatively close to it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The outlines of the house were distinct enough but the details, although present, impressed me with the notion that they were fading before my eyes. It was as though my view was partially obscured or obfuscated by a thin veil, or a light film, as though the building was slipping away from me. Suspecting the fault lay in my eyesight, I stepped back a few paces and took another look. From my new, more removed, position, unless I was mistaken, the subject on which I now gazed had developed a clarity hitherto unseen. Encouraged by this promising shift in perspective, I removed myself still further, at which greater distance the details became so clear that I could well have been standing outside the house itself, next to the ornate gate, not viewing it on canvas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So now I began walking slowly back towards the picture and, as I did, I was relieved to discover that the suspicions about my eyesight were unfounded. With each step that I took the mist that had so impeded my vision from the moment I looked upon the picture was, by stealth and with steady degrees, returning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I repeated\nthe exercise, just to make certain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was of the understanding that the further I removed myself from the K\u00f6nigsberg house the closer I came to it, or it to me; conversely, the closer I came to the house, the further away it became, until almost evaporating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\ninversion of physics bemused as much as the metaphysics eluded, but then, with\na Eureka moment, Romanticism kicked in and the haze before the house, being the\nhaze behind my eyes, lifted in the subjective sunlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course,\nthe visibility of the house was so much better delineated from a distance. The distance\nbetween myself and the house was not the insoluble distance of time that I had\nfirst believed it to be, but in fact quite the reverse. The further I walked\naway from the house the closer I came to K\u00f6nigsberg. Walking back was walking\nback in time towards the point of origin. But when I approach the house, in an\nattempt to go backwards, I walk back into the present, K\u00f6nigsberg slips from my\ngrasp and all that I am left with is the hazy, phantasmagorical image of\nsomething I aspire to see, to experience in the physical world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Konisberg street by Sherbak-Pyankova<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This painting, and a second painting of a street in K\u00f6nigsberg-Kaliningrad by the same artist, got both my vote and my wife\u2019s Olga\u2019s before we knew anything about either the artist or her mentor. However, given the profound effect that her work had on us, it should not have surprised us to learn that the artist she had studied under, and had an enduring respect for, was a mutual friend ~  Victor Rybinin<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victor had taught art for many years at the Kaliningrad Art School. He had, as he said, \u2018grown up among the ruins of K\u00f6nigsberg\u2019 and was \u2018the product of two cultures\u2019; he invested his entire life in the philosophical, artistic and historic exploration of the K\u00f6nigsberg-Kaliningrad continuum. As our artist and historian friend Stanislav Konovalov<\/a> said, who had himself been taught by Victor, Victor\u2019s artistic representations came from the heart, they are each and every one imbued with a symbolic mysticism, a profundity, a deep soulfulness which emanates from his appreciation of and unwavering love for K\u00f6nigsberg-Kaliningrad, always described by Victor, with characteristic understatement, as \u2018this unique place\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That none of Victor Rybinin<\/a>\u2019s art saw inclusion in the Rhythms of Kaliningrad<\/em> exhibition is a sorrowful oversight, particularly since those who knew him and who know his art share the conviction that he was and will remain a principal figure in the city\u2019s and  its region\u2019s cultural  history ~ history being the final judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Romanticist\nattribution or irony of fate? Either way it is an uncanny coincidence that we\nshould choose as favourite the painting which we chose today \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essential\nDetails:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

(Khudozhestvennaya Galereya) K\u00f6nigsberg  Stock Exchange<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prospekt\nLeninskiy 83<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaliningrad<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaliningrad\nOblast, 236039<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Map\nlocation: https:\/\/en.kaliningradartmuseum.ru\/contacts\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tel: 8 (4012)\n46-71-66<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: secretariat@kaliningradartmuseum.ru<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Website checked but not working on 12 April 2022]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opening times:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sat, Tues\n& Wed: 10.00 ~ 19.00 (10am to 7pm)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thurs &\nFri: 10.00~21.00 (10am to 9pm)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closed Monday<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2018-2021 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Published: 15 February 2023 ~ Is the K\u00f6nigsberg Amber Room still in Kaliningrad? 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