Hello! We live in Russia. Our country is very very big and that is why we have many different national toys.
Look at the beautiful tos from the village of Dymkovo. Dymkovo toys are made of red clay and river sand. They are painted in bright colours. Usually they are whistles, balls and dolls.
The village of Bogorodskoe is famous for wooden toys.
There are also many kinds of traditional rag dolls - Pelenashka, the smallest one for babies, Moskovka, with six children, Ten-Handed Doll to help women cope with the house work, and many others.
But the most famous is Matryoshka. It is a toy symbol of our country.
Look at the beautiful tos from the village of Dymkovo. Dymkovo toys are made of red clay and river sand. They are painted in bright colours. Usually they are whistles, balls and dolls.
The village of Bogorodskoe is famous for wooden toys.
There are also many kinds of traditional rag dolls - Pelenashka, the smallest one for babies, Moskovka, with six children, Ten-Handed Doll to help women cope with the house work, and many others.
But the most famous is Matryoshka. It is a toy symbol of our country.
Russian Dolls
Matryoshka. Russian nesting doll.
Matryoshkas are made from wood and have "a secret". Matryoshka is a nesting doll that contains some smaller dolls inside. They are recognized even in the countries thousand miles away from Russia. Taking a Russian nesting doll back home is a must among tourists from different countries. The matryoshka doll is a symbol of Russia and its culture.
The first Russian nested doll set was carved in 1890 by Vasily Zvyozdochkin from a design by Sergey Malyutin, who was a folk crafts painter in the Abramtsevo estate of the Russian industrialist and patron of arts Savva Mamontov. Zvyozdochkin and Malyutin were inspired by a doll from Honshu, the main island of Japan.
The first Russian nested doll set was carved in 1890 by Vasily Zvyozdochkin from a design by Sergey Malyutin, who was a folk crafts painter in the Abramtsevo estate of the Russian industrialist and patron of arts Savva Mamontov. Zvyozdochkin and Malyutin were inspired by a doll from Honshu, the main island of Japan.
Music from Matryoshkas.
Russian matryoshka came back to were it came from, to Japan. Watch how the Japanese use our national toy symbol. It's so unusual!
We made Ukrainian and Belorussian dolls
We decided to make Ukrainian and Belorussian national dolls because they are similar to many Russian dolls.