Russian dolls are generally composed of a number of hollow wooden dolls with the same pattern, up to more than ten, generally cylindrical, and the flat bottom can stand upright. The colors are red, blue, green and purple. The most common pattern is a girl dressed in Russian national costume, named "Matt Roska", which has become the general name of this kind of dolls.
From the14th century to the present, dolls originated in the ancient Russian town of Zagor (загорск), 70km south of Moscow. Because of the exquisite carving and painting skills of generations of craftsmen and the accumulation of Russian national culture, they are loved by children all over the world.
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Doll legend:
According to legend, the Russian nation has two cousins who grew up together in childhood. Later, their cousins left their hometown. Because they miss their cousins in their hometown, they make wooden dolls every year, and the dolls they make get bigger every year. A few years later, he returned to his hometown and gave the doll to his cousin. Later generations imitated it as a doll, also known as an auspicious doll.
Another said: Matryona and Matriosha are very common female names in the old Russian countryside. Scholars point out that these two names contain the Latin root "mater", which means mother. Hearing this name, people can easily think of the mother of a big peasant family, usually a strong and capable Russian woman, a little obese and with many children.
Moreover, there are so many small dolls hidden in the chubby wooden dolls that the dolls naturally become the names of beautifully carved and brightly colored wooden dolls.
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