Common Antonovka

type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Jelly, Pie, Sauce

summary: Grown for more than two centuries or more in Russia First presented to the scientific community by S.V. Batov in 1896 at an exhibition held in Novgorod (Russia). Batov is also credited with giving the apple the name Antonovka Tulskaya

origins: Much is left to conjecture in the development of the Antonovka apple. In its early form it grew wild as a small, hard and bitter fruit that was gathered as needed by roving bands travelling across steppes during the Middle Ages. and grew as a n one form or another apple In one form or another, the Antonovka apple has been grown in Russia for over as much as five centuries, though for much of that time it was >>>>The story of Antonovka is a kind of pomological detective story. As Adam Stanislavovich Grebnitsky wrote in the Atlas of Fruits of Russia, " the place-origin of Antonovka is not exactly known; it has been bred since very ancient times, and all pomologists who described it recognize it as a variety of Russian origin." At the Nizhny Novgorod Exhibition in 1896, S. V. Batov from Tula presented Antonovka Tula (dukhovaya). He believed that the common name Antonovka was named after the gardener Anton, who allegedly brought it back in time immemorial, and its own name-dukhovaya-from the “spirit”, the aroma that an apple has. These are varieties of antonovka that grow in different regions.<<<<<