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Izmaylovo Market with matryoshkas, Moscow Matryoshka dolls in Tallinn, Estonia Nesting of opened matryoshkas. Matryoshka dolls (/ ˌ m æ t r i ˈ ɒ ʃ k ə / MAT-ree-OSH-kə; Russian: матрёшка, IPA: [mɐˈtrʲɵʂkə] ⓘ), also known as stacking dolls, nesting dolls, Russian tea dolls, or Russian dolls, [1] are a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another.
Different toy manufacturers and different cultures have produced different-looking roly-poly toys: the okiagari-koboshi (起き上がり小法師, "take a spill, get up, and arise"), Kokeshi doll and some types of Daruma doll of Japan, the nevаlyashka (неваляшка, "untopply") or van'ka-vstan'ka (ванька-встанька, "Ivan-get-up") of Russia, and Playskool's Weebles.
Matryoshka Radio, a Russian-language radio station in the UK "Matryoshka", a song by Nico Touches the Walls from the 2011 album Passenger "Matryoshka", a 1999 episode of TV series Millennium; Matroesjka's, a Belgian TV series
Price on eBay: $8,500 Porcelain dolls don’t have to be more than 2 feet tall to be worth a lot of money. This little lady stands only 15 1/2 inches tall, but her ornate details and impressive ...
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead if you have not watched Season 5 Episode 11 of “The Masked Singer,” which aired May 12 on Fox. Hanson has been mmm-bop’ed off “The Masked Singer.” The ...
Matryoshka doll is a Russian nesting doll. A set of Matryoshka dolls consist of a wooden figure which can be pulled apart to reveal another figure of the same sort but somewhat smaller inside. It has in turn another somewhat smaller figure inside, and so on. The number of nested figures is usually six or more.
The Masked Singer returned for the season's quarterfinals on Wednesday, and the so-called "feisty five" faced off. It was a musical battle for the ages, but fans still had to bid farewell to one ...
Like Double Fine's previous Costume Quest, it is a smaller title created during the development period of Brütal Legend. 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 ...