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 – industrialist and a patron of the arts.
Russian wooden dolls within smaller dolls were called matryoshka. In old Russian among peasants the name Matryona or Matriosha was a very popular female name. Scholars says this name has a Latin root “mater” and means “Mother”. This name was associated with the image of of a mother of a big peasant family who was very healthy and had a portly figure. (source)
These souvenir was brought home by my father a few months back after his trip from Amsterdam. He actually bought two sets but my mother misplaced it. I actually asked my mother to look for it but she gave me an excuse of being busy and she has other things to do. Tsk tsk.. mothers…
Anyway, here are the pictures. Taken with my SE K800i in macro mode.
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