Nesting Dolls
In 1900, M.A. Mamontova, the wife Nesting Dolls of Savva Mamontov, presented the dolls at the World Exhibition in Paris and the toy earned a bronze medal. Soon, many other places in Russia started directorial matryoshki of many styles.
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During Perestroika, the leaders of the Soviet Union became a common theme depicted on matreshki |
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| Starting with the largest, Mikhail Gorbachev, then Leonid Brezhnev (Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko almost never appear due to the short length of their respective terms), then Nikita Khrushchev, Josef Stalin and finally the smallest, Vladimir Lenin |
| Newer versions bow with Vladimir Putin and then follow with Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Joseph Stalin and then Vladimir Lenin. |