I would like to buy one but i dont know the name of them.I would also like any info about where and when they originated from and what there main purpose was.
2007-01-12 12:20:56 · 12 answers · asked by sassylilredhead4 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Toys
They are usually people and they get smaller and smaller the more you open and take out the one inside.
2007-01-12 12:22:43 · update #1
matryoshka
2007-01-12 12:31:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nesting doll:
Russian nesting doll (synonyms - nested doll, stacking doll) or matryoshka as it is sounded in Russian - probably, the most popular Russian national souvenir. The wide fame was won by Russian matryoshka (nesting doll) far abroad. At all large exhibitions, fairs, the festivals held in different counties of the world, amusing cheerful nesting dolls were most fascinating exhibits. Also it seems, that matroyshka nesting doll has come to us from a gray-haired antiquity, from the world of legends and fairy tales. Actually this wooden doll is about hundred years.
this website has more details:
http://russian-crafts.com/nest/history.html
2007-01-12 12:33:17 · answer #2 · answered by btbuboy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are called MATROSHKA dolls.
Russian nesting doll (synonyms - nested doll, stacking doll) or matryoshka as it is sounded in Russian - probably, the most popular Russian national souvenir.
The first Russian nesting doll (matryoshka) was born in 1890 in the workshop "Children's Education" situated in Abramtsevo estate new Moscow. The owner of Abramtsevo was Sava Mamontov - industrialist and a patron of the arts.
2007-01-12 12:30:25 · answer #3 · answered by istitch2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Russian Nesting Dolls you can get the history of them here: http://russian-crafts.com/nest/history.html Russian wooden dolls within smaller dolls were called matryoshka
2007-01-12 12:29:47 · answer #4 · answered by tg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Babushka dolls
2007-01-12 12:28:12 · answer #5 · answered by Yo Mum Mum 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Patrushka dolls -- from Russia.
2007-01-12 12:27:22 · answer #6 · answered by la buena bruja 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are of Russian origin, I forget what they are called, but I am sure you can find it on the net.
2007-01-12 12:31:38 · answer #7 · answered by P.A.M. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
russia wooden dolls
2007-01-13 16:21:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
russian dolls designed to intrige and amuse children
2007-01-12 14:45:56 · answer #9 · answered by nico 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they are also called nesting cups
2007-01-12 12:30:08 · answer #10 · answered by Trish 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nesting dolls
2007-01-12 12:28:59 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋