Russian nesting dolls (matryoshka doll) 照片檔

A matryoshka doll also known as a Russian nesting doll, Stacking dolls, or babushka dolls, is a set consisting of a wooden figure which separates, top from bottom, to reveal a smaller figure of the same sort inside, which has, in turn, another figure inside of it, and so on. The first Russian nested doll set was made in 1890 by Vasily Zvyozdochkin.