RUWITCH: Stacking dolls are important here. There are silhouette statues of them at a major road junction and bright paintings of them on some of the town walls. There have been estimates in Chinese ...

MOSCOW -- Russia's economy is so bad that the government is bailing out one of its traditional souvenirs: nesting dolls. The nation's Industry and Trade Ministry recently announced that the government ...

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Who doesn’t like a little excitement in their life? If you’re familiar with the phrase, “but wait, there’s more,” then you know it certainly applies to kids’ nesting dolls. These delightful dolls, ...

Under the white walls and blue-and-gold cupolas of the Sergiyev Posad monastery, the row of vendors selling nesting dolls and other traditional Russian handicrafts is noticeably shorter this summer.

“In Russia, think about the cold white winter nights, minus 40 degrees outside. You’re somewhere in the middle of Siberia. It’s all covered with snow,” explains Marina Forbes. With the bitter weather ...

NEWTON — A wooden doll with delicate hand-painted features opens up to reveal another, and another, and another, cradling at its core a figurine the size of a grain of rice. For Pamela Kruskal, each ...