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A monumental occasion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Published: 10 June 2022 ~ Victor Ryabinin Pushes Boat Out with Bronze Aged Fisherman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At last, on Saturday 4th June 2022<\/span>, the memorial plaque that we commissioned in 2021 linking Victor Ryabinin, friend and K\u00f6nigsberg artist, to our physical representation of his famous painting \u2018Boat with Flowers\u2019, which occupies pride of place next to the Soviet fisherman statue, was given a home. The reason it never got attached last year was that we could not make up our minds where the plaque should go. The original plan was to include it within the boat and statue ensemble, possibly secured to a large flat-surfaced rock, screwed to the side of the boat or mounted on some plinth or other. I was easy with any of these three options, but Olga opined that the plaque would be hidden, which would rather defeat the object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renovation of the Statue<\/span><\/strong>
A Memorial Garden for Victor Ryabinin<\/strong><\/a>
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Thus, the location of the plaque was put to the vote, resulting in the unanimous decision to secure it to the side of the house, beside the garden gate. Our friend with the drill and bolts, Mr Chilikin, performed his side of the operation, whilst I, having just returned from the shop with two bottles of beer, provided inestimable assistance by holding the plaque in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victor Ryabinin<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When you lose someone as dear and as vital as Victor, time has a perplexing way of flying and standing still at the same time. This July will see the third anniversary of Victor\u2019s death. It seems like only yesterday, ten thousand days or more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am not ashamed to say that once the plaque had been placed, I did shed a few tears, but being a real Englishman, not a cheap British counterfeit, in order to maintain the myth of the stiff upper lip, I managed this in private.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, once the plaque had been \u2018unveiled\u2019 a toast ensued involving vodka, after which an intuitive silence fell on those of us present, the shared but unspoken thought being that had Death not exercised its non negotiable right to inopportune subtraction, doubtlessly Victor would have been with us today, and no plaque would have been necessary, just another glass. Life goes on, as they say, though never quite in the same old way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Links> Victor Ryabinin<\/strong>
Victor Ryabinin K\u00f6nigsberg Kaliningrad<\/a>
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This year our boat is not looking anywhere near as well-stocked and verdant as the one in Victor\u2019s painting, so project two is to rectify that discrepancy as soon as humanly possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Chilikin<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Before getting down to the serious task of celebrating what was without argument the most glorious summer day this year, Mr Chilikin also made good his promise to turn our fisherman bronze. You may remember that last year\u2019s restorative work on Captain Codpiece, our statue, had garnered criticism from a certain outspoken babushka, to wit that his new coat of paint appeared to be designed to make the feeble minded do something remarkably silly, like go down on one knee. Hence, there was nothing for it: either we had to delete one letter in the \u2018Codpiece\u2019 name and add two more in its place or pursue the original plan, which was to make him bronze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Victor<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Chilikin<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The latter option being the best in good taste all round, though the former was chucklingly good, Mr Chilikin got to woke, I mean work, and with the catalysing infusion of a couple of homemade vodkas gave Codpiece a new look that would make any alchemist jealous. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1960s, the fisherman had been silvered, but that was long ago. The Soviet era passed, the silver wore away and the fisherman\u2019s concrete superstructure began seriously deteriorating. We repaired him, coated the concrete in a special sealant and weather-proof solution and painted him in a dark matte ground with hints and highlights of bronze. Finally, succumbing to the criticism that he was as dark as a midnight mushroom, we turned up the bronze, although some might say that relative to the new beginning he is fullfilling an act of destiny and turning into gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2018-2022 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A monumental occasion Published: 10 June 2022 ~ Victor Ryabinin Pushes Boat Out with Bronze Aged Fisherman At last, on Saturday 4th June 2022, the memorial plaque that we commissioned in 2021 linking Victor Ryabinin, friend and K\u00f6nigsberg artist, to our physical representation of his famous painting \u2018Boat with Flowers\u2019, which occupies pride of place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1779,6],"tags":[1599,1613,1614,578,55,1600,1650,276,1922,1921,278,66],"class_list":["post-6663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diary-2022","category-kaliningrad-mick-harts-diary","tag-a-memorial-garden-for-victor-ryabinin","tag-boat-with-flowers","tag-chilikin-renovates-statue","tag-englishman-living-in-kaliningrad","tag-mick-hart-in-kaliningrad","tag-renovating-soviet-statue-kaliningrad","tag-statue-on-baltic-coast","tag-victor-ryabinin-artist-historian","tag-victor-ryabinin-boat","tag-victor-ryabinin-boat-fisherman","tag-victor-ryabinin-konigsberg-kaliningrad","tag-victor-rybinin-artist"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Victor-Ryabinin-Plaque-Toast-rz.jpg?fit=1264%2C948&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4569,"url":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/a-memorial-garden-for-victor-ryabinin\/","url_meta":{"origin":6663,"position":0},"title":"A Memorial Garden for Victor Ryabinin","author":"Captain Codpiece","date":"30 \u0430\u0432\u0433\u0443\u0441\u0442\u0430, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Pushing the boat out Published: 30 August 2021 ~ A Memorial Garden for Victor Ryabinin The idea to create our own, modest memorial garden to Victor Ryabinin came to us when we were deliberating on what name to give to the dacha. 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