Matryoshka Art Dolls ($199-$100)

Woman's Festive Costume Art Matryoshka

Woman's Festive Costume (Женский праздничный костюм). Costumes painted by the artist are based on 19th century festive clothing from the Tverskaya guberniya (Тверская губерния) north of Moscow. Pretty colorful blue-eyed matryoshka maidens are painted...

Konyok Gorbunok [Конёк Горбунок]

Konyok Gorbunok (Конёк горбунок). Also known as The Little Humpbacked Horse, the art comes from the rhyming fairy by Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov (Пётр Павлович Ершов ) (1815-1869). The allegorical story emphasizes trust and friendship. The magical horse...

Works of Gauguin [1993 5pcs]

The Paintings of Paul Gauguin (Картины Гогена). 5 nest, signed by the painter, and dated 1993. Painted in Rostov on the Don. Each piece has a polished clear coat of lacquer. Light wear at opening of the first doll, otherwise near fine. 5⅜" to 1⅛" 1 only...

Icons Nesting Doll

Icons (Иконы). This nesting doll exemplifies changes that were occuring under the Mikhail Gorbachev regime, which emphasized glasnost' and perestroika (openess and reform). Icons held by the nuns include the angel from the Trinity, John the Baptist,...

Crows from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Crows (Вороны). Inspired by Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, this set is an original artist design, and not, by any stretch of the imagination, a standard tourist doll sold in the marketplaces in Russia, nor was it made in China (don't...

Cossack Motifs

Cossack Motifs (Казачьи мотивы). A tour-de-force fully painted gem of a doll based on the culture, traditions and people known as the Don Cossacks (Донские казаки). Among their more famous members are Mikhail Sholokhov, whose novel, "And Quiet Flows the...