Vintage 7 piece Russian nesting dolls. The dolls are painted with shiny-chrome paint, and the wood is burned into Russian Renaissance style buildings, on the dress part, the womans' face is cute with chrome colored a babushka. The bottom is signed, I'm not sure of the name but it looks like “1962”.
A matryoshka, also known as Russian nesting doll, Stacking dolls, or Russian doll, is set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another. Name "matryoshka" (матрёшка), literally "little matron", is diminutive form of Russian female first name "Matryona" (Матрёна) or "Matriosha".
Set of matryoshkas consist of wooden figure which separates, top from bottom, to reveal smaller figure of same sort inside, which has, in turn, another figure inside of it, and so on.
The first Russian nested doll set was made in 1890 by Vasily Zvyozdochkin from a design by Sergey Malyutin, who was a folk crafts painter at Abramtsevo. Traditionally the outer layer is a woman, dressed in a sarafan, a long and shapeless traditional Russian peasant jumper dress. The figures inside may be of either gender; the smallest, innermost doll is typically a baby turned from a single piece of wood. Much of the artistry is in the painting of each doll, which can be very elaborate. The dolls often follow a theme; the themes may vary, from fairy tale characters to Soviet leaders. In the west, Matryoshka dolls are often mistakenly[3] retailer referred to as "babushka dolls", babushka meaning "grandmother" or "old woman".
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