Matryoshka - Landscape

Matryoshka - Landscape

89 euro

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Matryoshka - Landscape - product description

  • The dolls depict landscapes
  • Height: 14 cm
  • Material: wood
  • Number of dolls: 5 PCs
  • Manufacturer: Russia
  • Packing: without packaging

The history of dolls

Matryoshka — a set of detachable wooden dolls of decreasing size nested within each other.

The first matryoshka was created by wood Turner Basil Zvezdochkin work in the workshop "Children's education" A. Mamontov in Abramtsevo. The idea of creating Dolls was inspired by the Russian masters figurine Japanese God of wisdom Fukuruma imported from Japan from the island of Honshu to the wife of Mamontov. It was a figure of good-natured bald old man sage - Fukuruma. It was a few nested one inside another wooden figurines.

The first Matryoshka was eight. She was a peasant girl in a colourful traditional dress holding a rooster in black color. Inside were figurines of boys and girls, and the last, the smallest, painted baby.

How dolls are made

In 1900 at the world exhibition in Paris Russian folk nesting Dolls won a bronze medal and became widely popular in Russia and abroad. The toys were made in several factories, the most famous of which still remain Sergiev Posad and Semenov.

Manufacture of dolls requires a lot of experience and skill. Dolls made of Linden, aspen, alder and birch. Trees are cut down in April when they are filled with juice and then dried for 2-3 years.

After drying and polishing the dolls to the paint begins the artist. As used gouache paints, watercolor, tempera, oil paint sometimes. Then the dolls are covered with a protective layer. The best quality painted dolls are covered with at least 5 layers of lacquer.

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