Video: The history of matryoshka - the most positive Russian souvenir
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
When foreigners are asked about their first associations with Russia, they usually think of caps with earflaps, bears with balalaikas walking along city streets, and nesting dolls … If the first became obsolete over time, then matryoshka dolls continue to be in trend to this day. This positive and original souvenir is a real display of the Russian spirit and is readily bought up not only by tourists, but also by lovers of bright figurines.
Despite the fact that the matryoshka is considered a primordially Russian and ancient toy, its age is a little over 100 years. The figurines of the Buddhist sage Fukuruma, brought by the Mamontov family to the Moscow toy workshop "Children's Education" at the end of the 19th century, are also called the prototype of the matryoshka.
The author of the first nesting dolls was a wood turner Vasily Zvezdochkin, and the artist was engaged in their painting Sergey Malyutin … There were only eight figures. The largest one had a rooster in its hands, and the smallest matryoshka looked like a baby wrapped in a diaper. Historians come to believe that the name “matryoshka” comes from the popular Russian name Matryona at that time, which was associated with a large, stout woman.
When the demand for such toys began to increase, different styles of painting dolls appeared (Semenovskaya, Ivanovskaya, Sergievskaya). Matryoshka has become a real trend. In modern Russia, matryoshka dolls are painted not only as traditional pink-cheeked girls in headscarves. Models of politicians or athletes are popular. Among the matryoshkas there are also their own record holders. The largest one consists of 72 figures, and the smallest ivory nesting doll has a size of 1.1 millimeters.
Matryoshka is not only a souvenir, but also a coveted item for collecting such figurines. Unique collections of nesting dolls will surprise you with their diversity and dissimilarity to each other.
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