A matryoshka doll or a Russian nesting dolls (also called matrioshkas, matroshkas, stacking dolls or Babushka dolls) is a set of dolls of decreasing sizes placed one inside another.
The plural form matryoshki is used when referring to more than one doll.
Russian nesting dolls - probably, the most popular Ukrainian and Russian national souvenir. The wide fame was won by Russian matryoshka ( nesting dolls ) far abroad. At all large exhibitions, fairs, the festivals held in different counties of the world, amusing cheerful nesting dolls were most fascinating exhibits. Also it seems, that matryoshka nesting dolls has come to us from a gray-haired antiquity, from the world of legends and fairy tales. Actually this wooden doll is about hundred years.
A set of matryoshki ( nesting dolls ) consists of a wooden figure which can be pulled apart to reveal another figure of the same sort inside. It has in turn another figure inside, and so on. The number of nested figures is usually five or more. The shape is mostly cylindrical, rounded at the top for the head and tapered towards the bottom, but little else; the dolls have no hands (except those that are painted). The artistry is in the painting of each doll, which can be extremely elaborate.
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The plural form matryoshki is used when referring to more than one doll.
Russian nesting dolls - probably, the most popular Ukrainian and Russian national souvenir. The wide fame was won by Russian matryoshka ( nesting dolls ) far abroad. At all large exhibitions, fairs, the festivals held in different counties of the world, amusing cheerful nesting dolls were most fascinating exhibits. Also it seems, that matryoshka nesting dolls has come to us from a gray-haired antiquity, from the world of legends and fairy tales. Actually this wooden doll is about hundred years.
A set of matryoshki ( nesting dolls ) consists of a wooden figure which can be pulled apart to reveal another figure of the same sort inside. It has in turn another figure inside, and so on. The number of nested figures is usually five or more. The shape is mostly cylindrical, rounded at the top for the head and tapered towards the bottom, but little else; the dolls have no hands (except those that are painted). The artistry is in the painting of each doll, which can be extremely elaborate.
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