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Matryoshkas date from 1890. The story
goes that Sergei Maliutin, a painter
from a folk crafts workshop in the
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Abramtsevo estate of a famous
Russian
industrialist and patron of arts Savva
Mamontov, saw a set of
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Japanese wooden dolls representing
Shichi-fuku-jin, the Seven Gods of
Fortune. Inspired, Maliutin drew
- a
sketch of a Russian version of the toy.
It was carved by Vasiliy Zvezdochkin in
a toy workshop in
- Sergiyev Posad and
painted by Sergei Maliutin.
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It consisted
of eight dolls; the outermost was a girl
in an apron, then the dolls alternated
between boy and girl,
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with the innermost
– a baby.
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- In
1900, M.A. Mamontova, the wife of Savva
Mamontov, presented the dolls at the
World Exhibition in Paris
- and the toy
earned a bronze medal.
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Soon, many other
places in Russia started making matryoshki of various styles.
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Modern artists create many new styles of
nesting dolls. Today, many talented
Russian
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artists specialize in painting
themed
matryoshka dolls that feature
specific categories of subjects, people
or
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nature.
Beautiful set of Russian
Nesting Dolls (Matryoshkas).
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