A truely beautiful collection of nesting dolls. The detail on these is out of this world. Hours have been spent hand painting each of the dolls to make up this wonderful set of 10 Russian Nesting Dolls.
The dolls are mailny red with lots of little flowers dotted on the apron and head. The gold details brings the dolls to life, as they refect with the light around them.
A top of the range Quality set not to be missed by the collectors
A Matryoshka doll or a Russian nested doll (often incorrectly referred to as a Babushka doll - babushka means "grandmother" in Russian), is a set of dolls of decreasing sizes placed one inside the other. "Matryoshka" (Матрёшка) is a derivative of the Russian female first name "Matryona", which was a very popular name among peasants in old Russia. The name "Matryona" in turn is related to the Latin root "mater" and means "mother", so the name is closely connected with motherhood and in turn the doll has come to symbolize fertility.
