Matryoshka Art Dolls ($199-$100)

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...

Zaporozhye Cossack [Vintage]

Zaporozhye Cossack (Запорожский казак). A matryoshka with uncommon high relief texture added via mixed media. The first doll has a raised pipe, forelocks, earring and braid as well as a ladybug. The other dolls all have some raised texture, including...

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...

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...

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...