Nesting doll Sergiev-Posad 5 pcs. Red Cap

Nesting doll Sergiev-Posad 5 pcs. Red Cap

Very often matryoshkas were painted with plots from old Russian fairy tales or bylinas such as “Tsar Dadon” and “Tsarevna-Swan” by Pushkin, or the personages from Krylov’s fables like “Quartet” and many other. This matryoshka represents the whole class of such Russian nesting dolls: those with paintings picturing fairy tales and bylinas personages.