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SERGIYEV POSAD, Russia — Inna Kashnikova found her calling during a fourth-grade trip to a factory in this picturesque town that produces matryoshki, the wooden nesting dolls that are synonymous with ...

Who doesn’t like a little excitement in their life? If you’re familiar with the phrase, “but wait, there’s more,” then you know it certainly applies to kids’ nesting dolls. These delightful dolls, ...

SEMYONOV, Russia -- There are nesting dolls everywhere in Russia. Nesting dolls that look like kings or queens, nesting dolls that look like Vladimir Putin, nesting dolls that, of course, look like ...

NEWTON — A wooden doll with delicate hand-painted features opens up to reveal another, and another, and another, cradling at its core a figurine the size of a grain of rice. For Pamela Kruskal, each ...

“In Russia, think about the cold white winter nights, minus 40 degrees outside. You’re somewhere in the middle of Siberia. It’s all covered with snow,” explains Marina Forbes. With the bitter weather ...

Matryoshka dolls, or Russian nesting dolls as they are commonly called, consist of a seemingly endless series of wooden figures which can be pulled apart to reveal another figure with some resemblance ...

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