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Matryoshka dolls painted in the traditional style share common elements. They depict female figures wearing a peasant dress and scarf or shawl usually with an apron and flowers. [24] [25] Each successively smaller doll is identical or nearly so. [3] [24] Distinctive regional styles developed in different areas of matryoshka manufacture.
Different toy manufacturers and different cultures have produced different-looking roly-poly toys: the okiagari-koboshi (起き上がり小法師, "take a spill, get up, and arise"), Kokeshi doll and some types of Daruma doll of Japan, the nevаlyashka (неваляшка, "untopply") or van'ka-vstan'ka (ванька-встанька, "Ivan-get-up") of Russia, and Playskool's Weebles.
A Matryoshka doll, or Russian doll, is a set of dolls of decreasing sizes placed one inside the other. Matryoshka , or variants, may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media
Vasily Petrovich Zvyozdochkin (Russian: Василий Петрович Звёздочкин; 1876–1956) was a Russian woodturner, wood carver and doll maker.He is credited with making the first Russian matryoshka doll (painted by Sergey Malyutin) in 1890.
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A Russian doll (or Matryoshka) is a type of nested, wooden toy. Russian Doll or Russian Dolls may also refer to: Television series. Russian Doll, a 2019 American ...
The doll has been stored in a wood and glass case since 1979 because there were too many 'near miss' incidents while it was displayed at the museum without protection around it.
There is no question that the Japanese create nesting wooden dolls, and have done so for centuries. The matrioshka doll first appeared very recently in Russian history. While the doll clearly has contemporary cultural significance in Russia, its origins are decidedly non-Russian. --Popothebright 03:54, 28 October 2009 (UTC)