Nesting doll Sergiev-Posad 5 pcs. Flowers big.

Nesting doll Sergiev-Posad 5 pcs. Flowers big.

A great number of crafts was blooming in the villages and outskirts of towns surrounding Sergiev Posad Monastery. The manufacture of wooden toys including matrioshka doll called “troitskie” was especially remarkable. According to a legend the first wooden toy was cut by superior of Sergiev Posad Monastery Sergij Radoneskij. He presented children with toys.