Help with Signed Painting, Please!

Hello, I have a painting that is signed on the back likely with the date artist and title

Just need to know what it says??, thanks for any help - here is the link below for the picture, sorry its a bit faded in some spots

http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/qq5/ ... ting-1.jpg

http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/q...painting-1.jpg

http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/q...painting-1.jpg

A few words are abbreviated to their first letters, so I can guess them only (they are in italics).

Balakshin E.G. (Балакшин E.Г.) <- a painter
YOB - 1962
canvas, oil, 67x78 (cm)
"Still life with elder(-berry)"
The painting was made in 1989.

Thanks a lot for your help, really appreciated

Just wondering, are you sure about the (-berry) part? The actual picture is a still life and I dont see anything that looks like elderberry unless it is the branches, maybe it refers to the actual tea or something?

thanks

http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/q...d/RUSSIAN1.jpg

http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/q...d/RUSSIAN1.jpg

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I dont see anything that looks like elderberry unless it is the branches, maybe it refers to the actual tea or something?

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Yes, it refers to the branches. In Russian the same word can be used to denote elder (as a plant in general, its branches, etc.) and elderberries, so without seeing the actual painting I could not say what the painter meant.

Thanks!