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On the third anniversary of Victor Ryabinin’s death<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Published: 18 July 2022 ~ Remembering Victor Ryabinin, Artist, K\u00f6nigsberg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photograph: Victor Ryabinin seated on the right at the far end of the table<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 30th June this year, the thought occurred to me that three years ago to this date in less than four weeks we would be deprived of one of the most significant people in our lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this, the third anniversary of Victor Ryabinin\u2019s death, I have rescued from my photo archives an image for this post that was taken in a Kaliningrad restaurant shortly after I moved to Kaliningrad in the winter of 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This restaurant, situated below ground level not far from the Kaliningrad Hotel, had become a popular haunt of Victor\u2019s and his inner circle, his coterie of friends and fellow artists, not purely for its Soviet theme, although this coalesced perfectly with Victor\u2019s love of history, but also for the very practical and very reasonable reason that the food was affordably priced and, more importantly, it was one of those rapidly fading establishments where customers were permitted to bring their own alcohol with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the intervening period between my last visit to Kaliningrad and my return in 2018, a revolution had occurred, not arguably of the magnitude and life-changing tempestuousness as that experienced in Russia in the early years of the twentieth century but nevertheless in drinking circles on the scale of one to 10 somewhere close to 11: Victor and his clan had largely renounced the drinking of vodka and taken to cognac instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the last few months of Victor\u2019s life, and our association with him, the new trend was so evidently established that whenever we would meet, I would refer to those occasions as a meeting of The Cognac Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remembering Victor Ryabinin, Artist, K\u00f6nigsberg<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, not only is Victor no longer with us, but the old haunt, the Soviet caf\u00e9, has also vanished from our living timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For as much as it appealed to me, I am not entirely sorry that the cafe has ceased to exist. Knowing me and memories, it would have been all too tempting to return there and try to close the gap between what once was and nevermore can be. Life, as we grow older, is full of half-way houses where we hope one day we might meet again and mausoleums where if we do at least we won\u2019t be alone, even if none of us know it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photograph I have used for this post was taken in the Soviet caf\u00e9 at a time before we knew what it would eventually come to mean for us. Not every grain can be counted or heard as the sand runs down in the hour glass. Victor Ryabinin passed away a few months after this photograph was taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The memories you painted, all are good my friend …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2018-2022 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dedicated to Victor Ryabinin<\/strong>
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