{"id":5136,"date":"2021-12-01T11:08:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T11:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=5136"},"modified":"2022-01-02T11:53:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T09:53:39","slug":"celebrating-the-memory-of-konigsberg-tour-guide-stas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/celebrating-the-memory-of-konigsberg-tour-guide-stas\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Memory of K\u00f6nigsberg Tour Guide Stas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In Memory of a Good Friend<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Published: 1 November 2021 ~ Celebrating the Memory of K\u00f6nigsberg Tour Guide Stas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">28<sup>th<\/sup> November 2021. Today was the anniversary of Stas Konovalov\u2019s death. After paying our resects at the graveside, a group, consisting of family, close friends and neighbours, were brought together by Stas\u2019 mother for a memorial gathering. It was an emotional, at times difficult, and yet nevertheless, heart-warming occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Encouraged and mentored by <a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/victor-ryabinin-konigsberg-kaliningrad\/\">artist and art-teacher Victor Ryabinin<\/a>, from an early age it seemed as if Stas would pursue a career in art himself. Some of his drawings and paintings, most of which he had created in his youth and teenage years, and in which the symbolic hand of Ryabinin is clearly apparent, were displayed by his mother at the memorial gathering today. His art showed promise and had not life intervened in that indifferent way that it does, he might very well have gone on to fulfil his artistic destiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"289\" data-attachment-id=\"5143\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/celebrating-the-memory-of-konigsberg-tour-guide-stas\/mick-stas-mum-next-to-paintings-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mick-Stas-mum-next-to-paintings-2.jpg?fit=1257%2C581&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1257,581\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1638301982&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mick-Stas-mum-next-to-paintings-2\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Mick Hart and Stas Konovalov&amp;#8217;s mother at her son&amp;#8217;s memorial gathering&lt;\/p&gt;\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mick-Stas-mum-next-to-paintings-2.jpg?fit=300%2C139&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mick-Stas-mum-next-to-paintings-2.jpg?fit=625%2C289&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mick-Stas-mum-next-to-paintings-2.jpg?resize=625%2C289&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mick Hart with Stas Konovalov 's mother next to her son's paintings\" class=\"wp-image-5143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mick-Stas-mum-next-to-paintings-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C473&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mick-Stas-mum-next-to-paintings-2.jpg?resize=300%2C139&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mick-Stas-mum-next-to-paintings-2.jpg?resize=768%2C355&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mick-Stas-mum-next-to-paintings-2.jpg?resize=624%2C288&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mick-Stas-mum-next-to-paintings-2.jpg?resize=24%2C11&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mick-Stas-mum-next-to-paintings-2.jpg?resize=36%2C17&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mick-Stas-mum-next-to-paintings-2.jpg?resize=48%2C22&amp;ssl=1 48w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mick-Stas-mum-next-to-paintings-2.jpg?w=1257&amp;ssl=1 1257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption><span style=\"color:#0a0a0a\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Mick Hart and Stas&#8217; mother with some of Stas&#8217; artwork that he created as a student of art<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"327\" height=\"400\" data-attachment-id=\"5144\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/celebrating-the-memory-of-konigsberg-tour-guide-stas\/what-awaits-us-pic\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/What-awaits-us-pic.jpg?fit=327%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"327,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"What-awaits-us-pic\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/What-awaits-us-pic.jpg?fit=245%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/What-awaits-us-pic.jpg?fit=327%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/What-awaits-us-pic.jpg?resize=327%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/What-awaits-us-pic.jpg?w=327&amp;ssl=1 327w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/What-awaits-us-pic.jpg?resize=245%2C300&amp;ssl=1 245w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/What-awaits-us-pic.jpg?resize=20%2C24&amp;ssl=1 20w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/What-awaits-us-pic.jpg?resize=29%2C36&amp;ssl=1 29w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/What-awaits-us-pic.jpg?resize=39%2C48&amp;ssl=1 39w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><figcaption>                                                          <span style=\"color:#a30014\" class=\"has-inline-color\">One of Stas&#8217;s more bleak compositions, &#8216;What awaits us &#8230;&#8217;<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Later, again under Ryabinin\u2019s tutelage, Stas developed a love for the history of K\u00f6nigsberg and the region to which it belonged and went on to establish his own tour guides and tour-guide videos, which he worked, reworked and honed to perfection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Among the complement of friends and neighbours who had gathered today to pay tribute to him were people who had known him for most of his life, some of whom he had been at kindergarten with. By comparison, Olga and I were newcomers. We had known Stas for less than two years, but we had taken to him easily and instantaneously and had formed an insoluble friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It was <a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/victor-ryabinin-konigsberg-artist-historian\/\">Victor Ryabinin<\/a> who had introduced us to Stas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Stas told me afterwards that Victor had said to him, \u201cAn Englishman is coming to live in Kaliningrad. I think you should meet him. He is interesting, and I think you will find a common language.\u201d I never did pay Victor for calling me \u2018interesting\u2019, but Stas and I did find a common language ~ in our love of the past and through our mutual and high regard for the history of K\u00f6nigsberg-Kaliningrad and its region. We also found a common language in the degree to which we found beer, vodka, cognac and good conversation agreeable!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Under the direction and guidance of Victor Ryabinin, we had arrived at Stas\u2019 flat on a cold winter\u2019s evening. The puddles on the road and pavement had turned to ice, and the snow underfoot was multi-layered and covered with a fresh fall. Victor pressed the doorbell to Stas\u2019 flat and then began to perform star-jumps on a square of pavement next to the building where the snow had not penetrated. Each time he jumped, he clicked his heels together in mid-air, performing the ritual with a cheery grin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The obvious question was why? And when asked, the not so obvious reply had been that Stas\u2019 flat was possibly the only flat in Kaliningrad where you would not be asked to remove your shoes on entering, so Victor was doing Stas the honour of cleaning his boots before crossing the threshold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Stas was a big man, who looked even bigger in contrast to little Victor, but it soon became apparent that this difference in size had no bearing on the common personality and interest denominators that both shared ~ in fact, which we all we shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Stas\u2019 flat was an intriguing place. It bore all the hallmarks of expressive work in progress and was dotted about with K\u00f6nigsberg relics, more of which were proudly displayed inside a large, antique, cabinet. It was a home from home for me ~ the flat as well as the walnut cabinet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Celebrating the Memory of K\u00f6nigsberg Tour Guide Stas<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It was our mutual interest in history, relics of the past and the warm, open nature of our friend, Stas, together with the good memories of the times we spent together, that found us at his memorial gathering today. There were, perhaps, about 30 people in attendance ~ family, friends, neighbours ~ and most had tales to tell of their relationship with Stas or wanted to express their gratitude for knowing him in life and the sorrow they felt at his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I am always amazed at how proficient and adept Russian people are at public speaking and how openly and without reservation they bare their souls and reveal their innermost feelings. It is a lesson that we Brits, who are frightened to stray too far from banter and\/or prevarication, could certainly learn from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The individually rendered memories and tributes were sometimes moving, sometimes amusing and consistently complementary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">At times the tributes to Stas were so touching as to be almost overwhelming. I caught myself more than once glancing wistfully across at Stas, grinning from his photo-framed portrait behind the statutory glass of vodka with its piece of bread placed on top. Would he have been surprised at this gathering and to hear the tributes to him that were so touching as to be almost overwhelming?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">All I know is that for me to accumulate so many well-wishers at my funeral or memorial wake, I would have to set up a trust fund or at the very least pay people in advance to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"445\" height=\"657\" data-attachment-id=\"5146\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/celebrating-the-memory-of-konigsberg-tour-guide-stas\/screenshot-2021-12-01-110945\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-01-110945.jpg?fit=445%2C657&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"445,657\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot-2021-12-01-110945\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Stas Kaliningrad tour guide painting&lt;\/p&gt;\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-01-110945.jpg?fit=203%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-01-110945.jpg?fit=445%2C657&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-01-110945.jpg?resize=445%2C657&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Celebrating the Memory of K\u00f6nigsberg Stas\" class=\"wp-image-5146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-01-110945.jpg?w=445&amp;ssl=1 445w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-01-110945.jpg?resize=203%2C300&amp;ssl=1 203w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-01-110945.jpg?resize=16%2C24&amp;ssl=1 16w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-01-110945.jpg?resize=24%2C36&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-01-110945.jpg?resize=33%2C48&amp;ssl=1 33w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Stas was, as Leonard Cohen would say, \u2018almost\u2019 young when he died ~ too young. But if there is any consolation to be had, then it echoes in Stas&#8217; own words. With characteristic magnanimity, he left a note asking people not to brood in the event of his death, affirming that he had lived a full and eventful life in which he had achieved much of what he had set out to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Gracious, selfless and sensitive to the needs of others until the very end, this was Stas Konovalov. We are proud that we can count ourselves among his many friends, who loved and admired him in life and remember him in death for the commendable person he was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">R.I.P. Stas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">(<em>We wish Stas\u2019 mother, family and friends well, and thank his mother for her gracious invitation to attend the memorial gathering.<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#080808\" class=\"has-text-color\"><strong>Copyright \u00a9 2018-2022 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Memory of a Good Friend Published: 1 November 2021 ~ Celebrating the Memory of K\u00f6nigsberg Tour Guide Stas 28th November 2021. Today was the anniversary of Stas Konovalov\u2019s death. 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