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, ...

When you think of things that are quintessentially Russian, you might think of those painted wooden nesting dolls stacked one inside another. NPR's John Ruwitch visited the place where most of the ...

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 ...

Matryoshka dolls, also known as Russian nesting dolls, are an iconic toy. But how much do you really know about these dolls? This century-old toy long predates the Russian artists who made them ...

“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 ...

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 ...