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  2. Matryoshka doll - Wikipedia

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    The original matryoshka set by Zvyozdochkin and Malyutin, 1892. The first Russian nested doll set was carved in 1890 at the Children's Education Workshop by Vasily Zvyozdochkin and designed by Sergey Malyutin, who was a folk crafts painter in the Abramtsevo estate of Savva Mamontov, a Russian industrialist and patron of arts.

  3. Vasily Zvyozdochkin - Wikipedia

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    Vasily Petrovich Zvyozdochkin (Russian: Василий Петрович Звёздочкин; 1876–1956) was a Russian woodturner, wood carver and doll maker.He is credited with making the first Russian matryoshka doll (painted by Sergey Malyutin) in 1890.

  4. Russian Dolls: Sex Trade - Wikipedia

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    Russian Dolls: Sex Trade (Dutch: Matroesjka's, meaning Matryoshka doll, also known as Matrioshki or Matrёshki) is a Flemish drama television series about a group of women from Lithuania and Russia who are taken to Belgium by a gang involved in the sex trade to work as sex slaves.

  5. Stacking (video game) - Wikipedia

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    The game is based on the Russian stacking matryoshka dolls, an idea coined by Double Fine's art director, Lee Petty, who saw the dolls as a means to replace the standard player interface used in graphical adventure games. The player controls the smallest doll, Charlie Blackmore, who has the ability to stack and unstack into larger dolls and use ...

  6. Matryoshka (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A Matryoshka doll, or Russian doll, is a set of dolls of decreasing sizes placed one inside the other. Matryoshka , or variants, may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media

  7. List of English words of Russian origin - Wikipedia

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    Dedovshchina (Russian: дедовщи́на) (from Russian ded, "grandfather", Russian army slang equivalent of "gramps", meaning soldiers in their third or fourth half-year of conscription, + suffix -shchina – order, rule, or regime; hence "rule of the grandfathers") A system of hazing in the Soviet and Russian armies.

  8. Nested set collection - Wikipedia

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    A nested set collection or nested set family is a collection of sets that consists of chains of subsets forming a hierarchical structure, like Russian dolls. It is used as reference concept in scientific hierarchy definitions, and many technical approaches, like the tree in computational data structures or nested set model of relational databases .

  9. Talk:Matryoshka doll - Wikipedia

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    A matryoshka doll, also known as a Russian nested doll or a babushka doll, is a set of dolls of decreasing sizes placed one inside the other. The word "matryoshka" (Матрёшка) is derived from the Russian female first name "Matryona" (Матрёна).