Nesting doll Sergiev-Posad 5 pcs. grandfather with the cow

Nesting doll Sergiev-Posad 5 pcs. grandfather with the cow

Unfortunately the widespread opinion about Russian matryoshka doll as an original Russian ancient doll is a mere myth. The first Russian nesting doll was turned and painted in a Moscow toy studio in the 90-s of the 19th century according to the model brought from Japan. That Japanese model, made with a great sense of humor, was a number of figures of the Japanese wiseman Fukuruma – a bald old man with a head elongate because of careful thinking.