This Russian wooden toy is called a nesting doll. It consists of three dolls decorated with Petrikov painting, with Strawberries, flowers and gold painting.
The wooden dolls are painted with oils and varnished.
The handmade wooden nesting doll is a wonderful gift for any person.
VINTAGE CONDITION, VERY BEAUTIFUL AND ATTRACTIVE.
Dimensions: length: 3.94 inches (10.5 cm), width: 2.36 inches (6 cm), height: 2.36 inch (6 cm), no cracks.
Some HISTORY:A matryoshka doll also known as a Russian nesting doll, Stacking dolls, is a set of wooden dools of decreasing size placed one inside another. The name "matryoshka", literally "little matron", is a form of Russian female first name "Matryona" or "Matriosha".The matryoshka doll is a symbol of Russia and its culture. It is truly a doll—a child's plaything—but it began its history just over 100 years ago as a highly collectible art form. A set of matryoshkas consists of a wooden figure which separates, top from bottom, to reveal a smaller figure of the same sort inside, which has, in turn, another figure inside of it, and so on. The word “Matryoshka” is among the top 5 words strongly associated with Russia. Only few Russian words were borrowed by the languages of the world unchanged; Matryoshka is one of them. Despite the fact that the word is hard to pronounce, different spellings can be met in English texts: “Matrioshka”, “Matreshka”, “Matreoschka” or even “Matrushka”. At the same time, there are other references to Matryoshkas: babushka dolls or nesting dolls.
Kept in a smoke free home.