Matryoshka dolls (Russian: матрёшка) are wooden toys of Russian specialty:

It is generally composed of a number of hollow wooden dolls with the same pattern, up to dozens of them, usually cylindrical, with a flat bottom and can stand upright. The colors are red, blue, green, purple, etc. The most common motif is a girl dressed in a Russian national costume called "Matroshka Matroshka Matrothрёшка", which also became a common name for this type of doll.

Matryoshka dolls first originated in the ancient Russian town of Zagorsko, 70 kilometers south of Moscow.

From the 14th century to the present, generations of craftsmen have been loved by children and adults from all over the world for their exquisite carving and painting skills, as well as the accumulation of Russian national culture.

In ancient Russia, there was a skill in making wooden sets of apples and Easter eggs.

The Easter egg is a crown with a hen over it, and the hen on it has an egg on it and a yolk on the inside of the egg.

This is the prototype of a matryoshka doll!

In the old Russian countryside, Matryona and Matriosa were the names of a very ordinary woman.

Scholars have pointed out that the two names contain the Latin root "mater", which means mother.

Hearing the name, one can easily associate the image of a mother in a large peasant family, usually a sturdy and capable, slightly obese Russian woman who gave birth to many children.

With so many little dolls hidden in their bellies, Matryona was the natural name for the delicately carved and brightly colored dolls.

According to legend, a long time ago, the Russian nation had two cousins next to each other, the cousins grew up with each other in childhood, and later the cousins left for other places, because they missed their cousins in their hometowns, and made wooden dolls every year, and the dolls were bigger and bigger every year. A few years later, he returned to his hometown and gave the doll to his cousin, which was imitated and rumored to be called a nesting doll, also known as an auspicious doll.

Another theory is that the matryoshka doll was introduced to Russia from Japan at the beginning of the 18th century, and has a history of nearly 300 years.

Among the many things with typical Russian characteristics, nesting dolls have received unprecedented recognition and have become a symbol of Russian folk art!

The predecessor of the matryoshka doll was a Japanese doll in the image of a Buddhist saint named Фукурума on the island of Honshu, Japan. However, modern Japanese believe that the first person to make such a doll on the island of Honshu was a Russian monk.

It is said that the painter Maryudin saw a set of toys of the Seven Lucky Gods, the outermost of which was a bald birthday star, with seven statues of the gods in it, and he was inspired to design a set of toys, carved by the craftsman Svidoshkin, with a picture of a girl in a young man, then a girl, etc., and finally a baby.

In 1900, Maryudin's wife submitted the doll to the World's Fair and won an award.

Soon such dolls began to be made all over Russia.

And the image is gradually unified to "Matroshka", which is now the image of a Russian souvenir.

Other Nordic countries even make local matryoshka dolls for sale, but they still use the image of a girl wearing a Russian national costume.

The earliest idea of matryoshka dolls was a wooden doll made to please children.

The dolls of different sizes are set one by one, which gives children a particularly delicate and interesting feeling.

Children love fairy tales, so the famous characters and animals in the stories are made into dolls. Over time, nesting dolls developed a characteristic Russian style,

In addition to fairy tale characters, historical figures, powerful dignitaries, and even people and things around them in daily life have become the objects of creation.

The doll can be used as an ornament, or used for jewelry, sundries, candy, etc., or as a gift box.

Matryoshka also means that you have me, I have you, and everyone will never be separated. Matryoshka dolls are a great gift for everyone to have!

Anyone who has the opportunity to go to Russia will buy a set to take home, it is a beautiful special gift to send to family, witness love, express longing for exotic exoticism.

At this moment, what unfolds before our eyes is simply a sea of nesting dolls.

So many matryoshka dolls of different sizes and shapes, beautiful and dazzling make us dazzled and dizzy!

We see all kinds of Russian beauty nesting dolls, Russian landscape nesting dolls, Russian peasant women's nesting dolls, and even Hollywood star nesting dolls...... The subject matter is rich beyond our imagination!

We happily admired a group of matryoshka dolls with images of the leaders of the Soviet Union and Russia, from the smallest to the smallest: Putin, Yeltsin, Gorbachev, Brezhnev, Khrushchev, Stalin and Lenin.

When you open the nesting dolls one by one from the largest to the smallest, in the process, it will bring you constant excitement and curiosity, and a string of surprises is like unexpected gifts one after another!

And that's the charm of matryoshka dolls – bringing so many unexpected and novel joys to people!