The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Russia

Bessemyanka Michurina

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:

Raised in 1912 by I.V. Michurin at Michurinsk, Russia. Fruits are sweet, crisp and juicy.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

  • Bessemyanka Michurina Russia, 1912
Bessemyanka Michurina
Where Bessemyanka Michurina came from.

Sources

  1. Bessemyanka Michurina (accession 1976 - 103), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (early october).
  2. Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its parents, Alexander and Borowitsky, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
  • Coloured plate of Anis apples from A. Hrebnicki.

    Anis

    An old Volga folk apple whose clones bear small, bloom-dusted red fruit; Anis Polosaty has an anise-like scent

    Russia

  • Watercolour painting of Antonovka apples by Henry G. Van Deman.

    Antonovka

    Central Russia's old folk apple, prized for its scent and hardiness; DNA shows Schmidt's Antonovka is the same variety

    Russia, by 1826

  • Watercolour painting of Aport apples by Mary Daisy Arnold.

    Aport

    An old Russian apple, known in the West as Alexander, that became the celebrated Aport of Almaty after 1865

    Russia, late 18th century

  • Photograph of Bellefleur Krasny apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Bellefleur Krasny

    Russia, 1914

  • Photograph of Byeloborodovka apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Byeloborodovka

    Russia, by 1842

  • Photograph of d'Eylau apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    d'Eylau

    Russia, by about 1812

  • Dolgo

    A Siberian crab brought from Russia to South Dakota in 1897 and introduced in 1917 for its ruby-red jelly

    Russia, 1897

  • Watercolour painting of Duchess of Oldenburg apples by James Marion Shull.

    Duchess of Oldenburg

    Borovinka at home; its hardiness in prairie test winters led Americans to import more Russian apples

    Russia, 1700s or earlier

All 23 varieties from Russia