Matryoshka doll
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A matryoshka doll or matryoshka, also known as a Russian stacking doll, nesting doll, or simply a Russian doll, is a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another. Matryoshka is a d
Matryoshka dolls set in a row
The original matryoshka set by Zvyozdochkin and Malyutin, 1892
Seven Lucky Gods nesting dolls of Hakone, Kanagawa
Russian doll (pictured in 2018)
Vasily Zvyozdochkin
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Vasily Petrovich Zvyozdochkin was a Russian woodturner, wood carver and doll maker. He is credited with making the first Russian matryoshka doll in 1890.
Matryoshka doll
…in turn, another figure inside of it, and so on. The first Russian nested doll set was made during the 1890s by woodturning craftsman and wood carver Vasily Zvyozdochkin from a design by Sergey Malyutin, who was a folk crafts painter at Abramtsevo. The dolls continue to be mass-produced to this day. Traditionally, the…
Vasily Zvyozdochkin at work