Nesting doll Sergiev-Posad 5 pcs. Jew with a candle small

Nesting doll Sergiev-Posad 5 pcs. Jew with a candle small

Here you are welcomed to enjoy one of the best online souvenirs shops in Russia, where you can find a wide choice of Russian handcrafts and arts. On this picture you can see a matreshkas from Sergiev Posad. It is known that there used to exist 21 kind of Russian matreshkas (babushkas, nesting dolls) in Sergiev Posad in the year 1911. They differed from each other by colour, by size and also by the way of painting and by the number of places as well, which as you might know was a sign of high level in those times. Matreshkas from Sergiev Posad used to have from 2 to 24 places. Most popular with customers were babushkas with 3, 8 and 12 places. In the year 1913 a turner N.Bulitshev had created a nesting doll (on the occasion of a exhibition in Sainkt-Petersburg)whose size was 48 places big.