Product Description
Golden Ring (Золотое кольцо) Artistic Matryoshka. An elegant early nesting doll titled on the front "Golden Ring", which is a ring of towns and cities of great antiquity that lie northeast of Moscow. The artist of this matryoshka features the famous Troitsky-Sergiev Lavra, founded in the 14th century by St. Sergius of Radonezh in Sergiev Posad, Moscow.
The doll is an early one (1994) and the details and enhancements are fully hand made and well done, including the faces, the hair, the painting, gilding and woodburning. It has the distinction of being made in Sergiev-Posad, and signed by the artist. Excellent condition, 10¼" down to a tiny ¾", 10 pieces in all, as shown. 1 only.