Common themes include Christmas, Easter, floral and animal collections, portraits and caricatures of famous politicians, musicians, athletes, astronauts, robots, etc. Matryoshka dolls featuring ...

Common themes include Christmas, Easter, floral and animal collections, portraits and caricatures of famous politicians, musicians, athletes, astronauts, robots, etc. Matryoshka dolls featuring ...

The name matryoshka came from the female name matryona or matriyosha which was derived from the Latin root “mater,” meaning mother. The nesting doll represents a mother of a big family.

A picture taken on July 15 shows traditional Russian wooden nesting matryoshka dolls displayed at an exhibition in Moscow. Photo: AFP From cheery peasant girls in Tsarist times to Soviet-era ...

Sergiyev Posad, 80 kilometres north of Moscow, is considered the birthplace of the matryoshka. But factories that have produced the dolls for decades are struggling to stay in business.

Some 83 sets of such traditional wooden nesting dolls, from sets produced before World War II to dolls originating in post-Soviet era regional centers of Matryoshka production, are the focus of ...

The matryoshka or Russian nesting doll, one of the world’s most famous objects, was originally conceived as a children's toy, but over time became something far greater. "There are many versions ...

A century after this debut, millions upon millions of nesting dolls have been sold. There’s a Matryoshka doll museum in Moscow that populates two rooms with historic examples, including a three ...