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'Still-life with Crimean Apples, 'Kandil’ 

                                                                                   

Tanya Balaeva...
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'Still-life with Crimean Apples, 'Kandil’
Oil on canvas 40x50  cm. unframed , 2015  Crimea

$NZ 1050.00
I have painted this kind of apples quite a few times in my still-life . And as I found out they are not just usual apples. First time I heard the word “Kandil “ from our new neighbor when we bought the house in Crimea  in 2007 . She said we have got a wonderful and very rare  apple –tree in our garden . Kandil is a Tatar word and Crimea  used to be famous because of these apples .

Well the apple-tree doesn’t look too impressive to me  ,so tall with many dry branches ,locals do not know how old is it ,even old ladies always remember it was there and looked the same .

When I tried the first apple from this tree in the and of the summer  I wasn’t really impressed. Rather small , green  and  strange long shape , nothing special about the taste . We used to have a wonderful  apple-tree garden in Siverskaya ,near St. Petersburg, so I  could compare .

But in a few weeks these apples changed completely – become bright yellow with red side ,like hand  painted ,juicy and really tasty.

But many kinds of apples are like that what was so special about Kandil ? I made my research  on Internet : These apples could stay fresh and tasty up to over  two years in cool place ,like no other apples. Nobody knows how these apple-trees appear in Crimea , they have been growing here for many centuries.

Kandil  was  so popular in St.Petersburg before the revolution of 1917 and it was a luxurious fruit  . These apples were brought  to St.Petersburg  from Crimea  on the carts by  horses  ,it was a really long way  took two weeks to reach the  capital ,about 3000 km .  The price of one  of such apples was 1 rub  at  the popular restaurants .To explain how much was it –it was possible to have a  really good big meal at a café for 10-15 kopeks -1/10 of ruble .

But these days  Kandil  apple-trees are very rear ,haven’t seen any other in our  village .  And it is a pity ,as this apples are connected with ancient history of Crimea. 



BIO
Tanya Balaeva

I was born on June the 10th , 1975  in  St. Petersburg  .
At age of 13 y.o . I was introduced to art at the studio of my first and main teacher St.Petersburg artist  M.K. Zhernosek .  His teacher  was a famous Russian artist E.E. Moiseenko .
In 1993-1998 I studied painting  at the Art  Department of  St. Petersburg Pedagogical University.
Graduated from the university  in 1998  , diploma painting "Nika".
For a number of years I  painted and taught art at chidren art studio  in St.Petersburg . Now I live and work in Crimea .  My paintings are in private collections in Russia and abroad .

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Contact : tanyabalaeva@gmail.com


Website: http://tanyabalaeva.wix.com/tanyabalaeva

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