Song There is no "canonic" song under this name, although numerous texts are known, their common part being only its tune and the signature lines starting with "Эх, яблочко..." ("", "Ekh, little apple"), in numerous versions: "Ekh little apple, where are you rolling?" (Эх, яблочко, Да куда котишься?), "Ekh little apple on the saucer" (Эх яблочко, да на тарелочке!), etc. Verses of this kind proliferated during the
Russian Civil War, in
Red,
Black and
White camps. The song itself has nothing to do with apples, with its verse commonly being related to the political issues of the time. A variant of this song, written by
Yuliy Kim, is sung by Sharikov (transformed from a stray dog) before the medical commission in the 1988 film
Heart of a Dog: "Эх, яблочко, да с голубикою. Подходи, буржуй, глазик выколю!" (Erh, little apple, with
bog blueberry, Come here
bourgeois man, I'll gouge out your eye!).
Dance Researchers believe that the "" dance appeared as a synthesis of the British and Ireland
hornpipe dance and
Russian traditional dance. ==References==