Matryoshka Dolls August 10, 2006

Other names:
nested doll
stacking doll
Russian nesting doll
Russian nesting dolls are a set of dolls of decreasing sizes placed one inside another.
These dolls are Russia’s most popular national souvenir. The first Russian nesting doll (matryoshka) was born in 1890 in the workshop “Children’s Education” situated in Abramtsevo estate new Moscow. The owner of Abramtsevo was Sava Mamontov [...]