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Russian nesting dolls (Russian: матрёшка) is a Russian specialty of wooden toys, generally by more than one of the same pattern of hollow wooden dolls a set of a composition, up to more than a dozen, usually cylindrical, the bottom of the flat can be upright. The colors are red, blue, green and purple. The most common design is a girl in Russian national costume, called "Matryoshka", which has become the common name for these dolls.

From the 14th century to the present, the earliest originated in the Russian town of Zagorskoe (Загорск), 70 kilometers south of Moscow, the nesting dolls, due to generations of craftsmen's exquisite carving and painting skills as well as the accumulation of the Russian national culture, by the children of all countries and the friends of the favorite.

The nesting dolls appeared in Russia in 1890, before Russia has a wooden set of apples and Easter eggs, Easter eggs are a crown, set a hen, the hen set an egg, the egg inside an egg yolk.

It is said that the painter Mariutin saw a set of toys of the Seven Blessed Gods, with the bald birthday boy on the outermost part, and seven idols sheathed inside, and was inspired to design a set of toys, engraved by the artisan Svidoshkin, who drew his own, of a girl sheathed in a young man, and then another girl, etc., and lastly, a baby.

In 1900, the World's Fair, to which Mariutin's wife submitted this set of dolls, won a prize, and soon all over Russia began to manufacture such dolls. And the image gradually unified to Matroshka, which has now become the image of Russian souvenirs, and other Nordic countries even made for sale, but the girl's costume is still the national costume of Russia.